• ILoveUnions@lemmy.world
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    8 hours ago

    It makes literally not a single difference if all of us here boycotted them or not. It’s meaningless.

    Just lemmy users? Sure, but you don’t stop with just lemmy users.

    These billionaires are making more money than they ever have in human history

    Honest to god do you think that money magically appears in their pocket. We can still claw it back. Unionize, boycott, collective action is our strongest pressure against them and IT DOES WORK.

    • LadyAutumn@lemmy.blahaj.zone
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      1 hour ago

      I agree that collective action is our strongest pressure against them and it does work.

      I do not think a boycott itself is likely to reverse Apple’s removal of the app. I also think it makes more sense for the app to become available from a web browser, or some other avenue that circumvents the need for Apple’s approval in the first place.

      I also believe that collective action in this circumstance is better spent on ICE itself, which would be more effective (its the reason the US government wants Apple to remove the app in the first place) and more direct to fascist power.

    • 0x0@lemmy.zip
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      5 hours ago

      collective action is our strongest pressure against them

      Which is why governments fight so much to make it hard.
      In my neck of the woods it’s not cool to unionize and there’s no home owners’ association, people only rally for their favorite sports team but don’t bother voting.

      I guess we get what we deserve.