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By contrast, I don't use any products by any of this "gang of five". Gang, by the way, is a pretty good description, considering most of these companies' behavi
by Tharkun 10y ago
By contrast, I don't use any products by any of this "gang of five". Gang, by the way, is a pretty good description, considering most of these companies' behaviour borders on criminal.
Apple with its reliance on child labour.
Amazon has been getting bad press for the way they treat their staff (suicides and whatnot).
Facebook & Google's blatant disregard for everyone's privacy.
Apple, Google & Facebook are all turning into awful walled gardens governed by some weird, moralistic principle where anything that might offend an advertiser is Verboten. Nipples be gone. You want to communicate with someone outside of our walled garden? Tough shit.
Microsoft seems to be the lesser of evils these days.
- anon1385 10y agoWhat hardware manufacturers do you buy from that don't have child labour in the supply chain? I fear you may just be fooling yourself. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/25/smartphone-samsung-tin-bangka-island https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2013/apr/25/smartp... >As Nokia, which seems to have done more than any other such firm to investigate its own supply chain, told me, "there has been no credible system in the electronics industry that allows a company to determine the source of their material".
- mattnewton 10y agoBecause apple has so much scrutiny, and is able to get away with less, it may even be the most child-labor free option. http://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/labor-and-human-rights/ http://www.apple.com/supplier-responsibility/labor-and-human...
- chocolatebunny 10y agoHow do you Google stuff without Google? Is DuckDuckGo good enough now?
- headcanon 10y agoHonestly curious, what do you use for your phone then? Are you going full flip-phone? Kudos if you are, I couldn't do it.
- bythckr 10y agoI too am curious as to what you use.