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Boycotting Blizzard is easy and achieves almost nothing. Boycotting Chinese products on the other hand...

cwkoss 7y ago
Is there a website that helps consumers identify brands that do not have Chinese investors and don't use Chinese manufacturing in their supply chain?
- gtirloni 7y ago
  Not that I know of. Doing this at the consumer level requires a lot of convincing, grassroots movements, etc. It's messy and ends up creating xenophobic groups. IMHO, it's more efficient done at the government level where it can impact big state-owned companies. Reading what I just wrote, it may sound like I support Trump's tax war, which is not true at all. He's not doing that to forward an agenda of human rights, which I think it's the point of this whole discussion.
- Can_Not 7y ago
  I thought buycott would have this as a trending campaign but I couldn't find it.
prepend 7y ago
Blizzard survives on monthly recurring revenue streams. Boycotting disrupts this stream in a very consistent manner. 1M boycotters mean $10M lost per month plus all the addition revenue from lost streamers and watchers. Blizzard made $1.4B last quarter [0]. It doesn’t bankrupt them but losing 2.5% of earnings sucks. [0] https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-second-quarter-2019-financial https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...
- gtirloni 7y ago
  I thought the point was to affect China's policy, not to bankrupt companies we don't like.
  - beirut_bootleg 7y ago
    The point is signaling that us, as consumers, cannot stand with and support a company or corporation that kisses China's ass to be allowed to keep sucking on that capitalist teat.
  - prepend 7y ago
    I think the point is to change behavior of firms by punishing them financially until they change. If they don’t ever change then I think they deserve to go bankrupt. I don’t think boycotting Blizzard will have much of a direct effect on China’s policy. But if enough companies and governments act responsibly then China may change their policy.

Is there a website that helps consumers identify brands that do not have Chinese investors and don't use Chinese manufacturing in their supply chain?

gtirloni 7y ago
Not that I know of. Doing this at the consumer level requires a lot of convincing, grassroots movements, etc. It's messy and ends up creating xenophobic groups. IMHO, it's more efficient done at the government level where it can impact big state-owned companies. Reading what I just wrote, it may sound like I support Trump's tax war, which is not true at all. He's not doing that to forward an agenda of human rights, which I think it's the point of this whole discussion.
Can_Not 7y ago
I thought buycott would have this as a trending campaign but I couldn't find it.

prepend 7y ago

Blizzard survives on monthly recurring revenue streams. Boycotting disrupts this stream in a very consistent manner. 1M boycotters mean $10M lost per month plus all the addition revenue from lost streamers and watchers. Blizzard made $1.4B last quarter [0]. It doesn’t bankrupt them but losing 2.5% of earnings sucks. [0] https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-details/activision-blizzard-announces-second-quarter-2019-financial https://investor.activision.com/news-releases/news-release-d...

gtirloni 7y ago
I thought the point was to affect China's policy, not to bankrupt companies we don't like.
- beirut_bootleg 7y ago
  The point is signaling that us, as consumers, cannot stand with and support a company or corporation that kisses China's ass to be allowed to keep sucking on that capitalist teat.
- prepend 7y ago
  I think the point is to change behavior of firms by punishing them financially until they change. If they don’t ever change then I think they deserve to go bankrupt. I don’t think boycotting Blizzard will have much of a direct effect on China’s policy. But if enough companies and governments act responsibly then China may change their policy.