Comment on Do boycotts work?
janonymous@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
I don’t think you can effectively boycott whole countries if you aren’t doing so on a country level.
Consumer level boycotts against companies on the other hand seem to work very well.
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 13 hours ago
I wish there was momentum to boycott US tech companies
palordrolap@fedia.io 10 hours ago
Ouch. AMD and Intel are both US based. Intel was easy enough, but I'd have to do a lot of soul searching and research to give up AMD, their graphics cards and the x86 architecture.
And this is from someone in Britain, where ARM - probably the next best alternative - is based. (As in located, not the new sense of based. Though they might actually be that too.)
porcoesphino@mander.xyz 8 hours ago
Yeah, I was think there is easier momentum for non-hardware tech. Social media is mostly its users so if they leave there isn’t much. Disney showed some of the weaknesses of streaming services but they’re aren’t many non-US alternatives. There are YouTube alternatives but there most of the content creators are entrenched there. Most of the rest of Google’s offerings have European alternatives.