Excellent boycott list: whom to boycott, why, & alternatives:

[tblue37]

https://psychopete1.substack.com/p/psycho-petes-guide-to-boycotting?r=5j616r

You have to scroll down a bit to the list.

[FM123]

1. Just wow.

"Amazon’s Ring has partnered with Flock Safety to give ICE and other federal agencies indirect access to private home footage—without warrants, oversight, or accountability. This isn’t convenience. It’s the blueprint for a digital Gestapo.

Once, they kicked in doors. Now they don’t have to. The surveillance state is built into the front porch of millions of homes.

Through Ring’s Neighbors app, agencies can post “community requests” asking residents to share footage tied to investigations—mapped zones, timestamps, case IDs, the works. Flock’s AI systems then let them search those feeds with phrases like “man in red hoodie” or “white pickup after 9 p.m.”—bypassing warrants entirely.

The result: a privatized dragnet that erodes the Fourth Amendment pixel by pixel. ICE and other agencies now enjoy indirect access to millions of private cameras—doorbells, driveways, even interiors.

This isn’t hyperbole. The Gestapo didn’t need consent. Now they don’t need presence. They’ve crowdsourced compliance through fear, apps, and “community safety.”

Don’t invite it in."

[usonian]

2. Well said.

[Cha]

3. "How to Ghost the Media Machine" I love it!

I Ghosted the Whole Damn "media thing" in November 2002 and Never looked back./

But of course I can see from DU that it's only.. gotten 1000 Fold Exponentially WORSE JHC

TY! What A List!! Psycho Pete Gave Us!1

[BadgerMom]

4. K & R

[Permanut]

5. Bookmarked.

[hunter]

6. It's easier to make a list of those I don't boycott.

I'd boycott damned near every aspect of our modern 21st century "consumer" economy if I could, starting with automobiles and cell phones. Both are tools of fascist oppression and the "freedoms" they offer us an illusion. I resent that I must own both a car and a cell phone to be considered a fully functional adult in this society.

DU is my only "social media," I don't watch any advertising supported television, and I've probably blacklisted 90% of the internet. I don't use Apple or Microsoft products.

I'm mostly vegetarian, but not militantly so.

If all the airlines, fast food chains, big box stores, factory farm meat producers, etc., vanished today I would not feel deprived.

We support these toxic billionaires, they're not supporting us. We should stop doing that.

[Mr. Evil]

7. I read the entire article.

Fucking incredible. If we ever really had a government of the people, by the people and for the people, none of this would've happened on the scale it is happening today. We are ruled by the money junkies (no different than heroin addicts - same symptoms, different drug), power-mad and the sadists.