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People boycott companies for something that company did. Please, go ahead and boycott KiwiFarms all you want: you are well within your right to do so, both lega
by simiones 4y ago
People boycott companies for something that company did. Please, go ahead and boycott KiwiFarms all you want: you are well within your right to do so, both legally and morally.
But extending this to other random people or companies who choose to do business with the thing you are personally boycotting is often going too far.
- woodruffw 4y agoWhere's the "random"? Cloudflare is a services provider: they are a first-degree participant in the affair. You presumably wouldn't object to a boycott of Hugo Boss in 1941, despite not running the camps themselves. Their own TOS makes this clear, and provides justification for a boycott rather than just general ire: it would be one thing if they merely declined to intervene at all, but they're decided to do so selectively.
- dmatech 4y agoIt's wise not to interfere with a contract between two or more willing parties (especially as an outsider). https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tortious_interference
- woodruffw 4y agoBoycotts (or threatening one) do not remotely qualify as tortious interference, nor does publicly advocating for a publicly traded customer to drop a client.