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There is a major boycott of Amazon this week after it came out they're directly competing for military contracts that Google declined to take [0]. It's almost

There is a major boycott of Amazon this week after it came out they're directly competing for military contracts that Google declined to take [0]. It's almost certainly the case that Amazon is helping and urging people to post negative stories about other high profile competitors, Google included, right now. That's just how tech journalism works. Amazon is just much better at it than less successful attempts like the "scroogled" campaign. This does not dismiss the bad things Google does. However, it does mean that it's a good week to remind people to boycott Amazon any way they can in addition to holding Google accountable. [0]: Although that outcome was largely driven by collective action from employees and reports of some employee retaliation were public as a result of it.

ocdtrekkie 7y ago
"It's almost certainly the case" without any evidence whatsoever? I mean, there's a lot of companies who have a reason to promote Google's fraud-based business model (mostly, companies being defrauded by it). What would you say makes it "almost certainly" about Amazon?
- KirinDave 7y ago
  Forgive me if it's a case of mistaken identity, but I seem to recall last time we talked you started harassing me on other social media sites demanding I answer your arbitrary questions and attempting to solicit distributed harassment. Don't you think it's better for both our mental health and the tone of HN if we not argue about this, and perhaps agree both companies do bad things and scheduled boycotts of both can be a good example of collective action?