When someone (including me) shares a bad thing a corporation did, this really emphatically does NOT mean you need to immediately drop everything and boycott that corporation. Do not be a victim of availability heuristic.
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First, corporations do shitty things all the time. If you use, like, energy, or medicine, you're almost certainly giving money to a much worse corporation than whatever the latest tech outrage is. Just because it's *new*, just because it's *worth being aware of*, doesn't mean it should be the most important thing.
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@glyph Wait, medicine as a whole is bad now? Like, just blanket rule, all of medicine?
All of energy as well? From batteries to power supplies to solar panels, endothermic panels, adapters of every kind?
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@teotwaki Right now most renewable companies are aggressively anti-trump because he seems committed to absolutely destroying their industry, but it's worth remembering that perhaps the biggest decarbonization company in the US is Tesla. Similarly, there are not a lot of clean hands in the pharma biz. On the other hand we need energy! We need medicine! But they're mostly controlled by ghouls, and if one of them temporarily happens to be managed by basically sane people, they might always sell
@glyph you and your nuance.
I say, if everyone boycotts everything imperfect, then only what is perfect will remain.
Second, and more importantly, finding a suitable alternative for yourself and organizing an actual boycott are massive costs *to you*. It's not free. Your own time, energy, and headspace is valuable. It's got to actually be _worth it_ to migrate your use to something else. That of your community is also valuable; it's even more important to not go off half-cocked insisting that everybody else ALSO immediately drop whatever product is implicated.
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So, that's what _not_ to do. But what *to* do, when you find out about something bad?
1. If you're _not_ using it yet, now you know, and you can avoid adopting it.
2. Make the signal legible to the corporation. If you're going to cancel your subscription, make sure that you tell them why. Simply stopping your subscription will read as regular churn to most companies and they will not think anything of it.
3. *If* you have time and energy, *prepare resources* to help others with switching.
