Like do they actually, reliably effect change in the way the activists intend?

Have they worked against Israel? Did they work against Apartheid South Africa? Could they work against Trump’s America?

My hunch is that they don’t, really, but can be a useful promotional tool for other issues. Like don’t buy American is a simple message. If people will listen to that, they may listen to reasons why, which maybe could build a movement.

But on the whole I am very sceptical, and would be interested in any reasons for or against boycotts.

  • janonymous@lemmy.world
    31·
    17 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.

      • palordrolap@fedia.io
        2·
        13 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
          1·
          11 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.