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So far my list includes Comcast, EA, and Nestle. Tell me yours, and I'll help out.

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[–] Resol@lemmy.world 15 points 1 year ago

All of the big ones

[–] netchami@sh.itjust.works 14 points 1 year ago (2 children)

Vanguard, BlackRock, The Coca-Cola Company, PepsiCo, Nestlé, Microsoft, Amazon, Oracle, Twitter/X, any company owned by Elon Musk, pretty much every Big Tech company, Disney, almost any media company, as well as every major bank.

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[–] Mister_Rogers@kbin.social 14 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (23 children)

Here's my list that I avoid if and where I can. As with everything, things are nuanced and complex, and it's not like every company I personally boycott is outright bad or good all around. I wasn't going to write down the reasoning for each and every one, but ask away if you want to know about the reasoning behind particular ones. I'll also note, this is 100% not in any order (other than as they came to mind), it was time consuming enough making this vs. ranking them all!

Disney
EA
Volkswagen
Tesla
BMW
Audi
NVIDIA
Nintendo
Google
Apple
Facebook
Shell
Microsoft
X
Discord
Reddit
Old Spice
Costco
Netflix
Spotify
Nestle
Toyota
Tencent
Blizzard
Uber
DuPont
Fountain Tire
Walmart
Boeing
Brave
Princess
Moxies Group
Hewlett Packard
Amazon

On the flip side, companies that while not perfect, I think overall are doing good things that I try to support when I can (if only with word of mouth in some cases):

Valve
Framework
Firefox
Pine64
Raspberry Pi
Hyundai
Lucid
System 76
A&W
Trail Tire
Plex
Amanita Games
iBroadcast
Volvo
Napa
Fairphone

There's probably more I'm missing, I'm a pretty strong believer that companies rule most of the western world and that if individuals want the world to meaningfully improve, we have to vote with our wallets as diligently as we vote at the polling stations.

[–] owatnext@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Support

Hyundai

Wow. Really?

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[–] 768@sh.itjust.works 9 points 1 year ago (12 children)

Can you clarify for Toyota, Hyundai and Volvo?

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[–] dirtbiker509@lemm.ee 7 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

Amazon is one of the most evil companies on the planet and yet it's not on your list but Costco is? Gonna have to completely disagree with you. Costco is probably one of if not the best company in the fortune 500. They operate and live by their code ethics to do the right thing. They've never ever had a lay off of employees, they treat people right.

You called them out for a subscription model, yet don't understand what they are offering at all. What store can you shop at that offers products at zero margin? Costco's yearly net profit is the number of members times the membership cost. Their entire business profit is only the $100 membership fee per person. That's all they want to make from each person.

Edit: And then you have Amazon. Where they use people and dump them. Have a vulturistic operating model. They literally have meetings and design their software to trick people into buying at a higher cost. They'll manipulate anyone anyway they see fit to make as much money as possible from them. They sell stolen and counterfeit products and they know it, they just let it happen because validating products would cost them money. They'd rather just say sorry if you catch them and give a refund.

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[–] asg101@lemmy.world 14 points 1 year ago

Nestle

Walmart

[–] xePBMg9@lemmynsfw.com 12 points 1 year ago

Apple, Microsoft, Oracle.

[–] Quazatron@lemmy.world 11 points 1 year ago
[–] popemichael@lemmy.sdf.org 11 points 1 year ago

Anything made by or connected to Nestle for sure

They have a lot of blood on their hands.

[–] yoshipunk123456@sh.itjust.works 10 points 1 year ago

Google until they change their eulas wotc to stop themselves from doing this: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Web_Environment_Integrity?wprov=sfla1

[–] Destraight@lemm.ee 10 points 1 year ago

Shell gas station. They bought dirty Russian oil

[–] MajorHavoc@lemmy.world 10 points 1 year ago

This thread has lots of company names without references or explanations.

While " controversy" is probably a solid search term, we could do better by including "why" right in the comments.

[–] detalferous@lemm.ee 9 points 1 year ago

Exxon

Chevron

Shell

[–] kugel7c@feddit.de 9 points 1 year ago

I know this isn't really an option for most people but consider dropping Deloitte KPMG and all banks that aren't cooperatives.

[–] DannyMac@lemmy.world 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

I think the main take away is that this applies to most, if not all, publicly traded companies?

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[–] yoz@aussie.zone 8 points 1 year ago (2 children)

I keep reading everywhere "fuck nestle" and then I see their 2022 FY report with sales increased to 104.95 billion thats 8.4% from.previous year.

So the question now is

WHO'S FUCKING WHO ?

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[–] Karlos_Cantana@sopuli.xyz 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)
[–] VieuxQueb@lemmy.ca 8 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Someone really has a personal gripe on this one ! What's the story?

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[–] pewgar_seemsimandroid@lemmy.blahaj.zone 7 points 1 year ago (1 children)

if government agencies are possible then the nsa

[–] macaroni1556@lemmy.ca 9 points 1 year ago (4 children)

How do I boycott the NSA? Especially as a non citizen!

[–] spittingimage@lemmy.world 7 points 1 year ago (2 children)

My government gave the NSA the ability to mass-surveil our phone calls in order to stay good friends with the US. I'd surely love to boycott that.

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