That is an important distinction, but in this case the problem still applies. The boycott doesn't apply to Nature, and arguably doesn't apply to non-publicatio

That is an important distinction, but in this case the problem still applies. The boycott doesn't apply to Nature, and arguably doesn't apply to non-publication writing like News and Views. Rather the boycott is of Nature Machine Intelligence, and the first author of the underlying paper in NMI is a signatory on the boycott list.