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They're free to support Nazis, I'm free to not buy their product. Just make sure your favorite employer's IT department is aware of this before they make a pur
by xqcgrek2 1y ago
They're free to support Nazis, I'm free to not buy their product.
Just make sure your favorite employer's IT department is aware of this before they make a purchase order.
- bbg2401 1y agoIt is a false statement to claim that they are supporting Nazis. Did you take exception to the company prior to this controversy? After all, they use manufacturing plants in a country which blends far right and far left political ideas concepts quite openly.
- veeti 1y agoWhich ethical laptop would you recommend?
- znpy 1y agoprobably torn between Lenovo, a state-owned chinese company that's empowering the Uyghur genocide, or maybe Apple, the american hyper-capitalist company that's siding with the US government and empowering/enabling ICE by removing ICE-tracking apps (besides exploiting slave labor in chinese foxconn factories for years). So many options!
- dole 1y agoDude, you're getting a Dell.
- UncleSlacky 1y agoThere is no ethical consumption under capitalism.
- hellcow 1y agoI'm getting an MNT Reform as my next PC, which is built by a small team of queer hackers in Germany prioritizing open hardware and software. It's not for everybody--it's friggin' huge and requires technical know-how. But it would work for a substantial subset of HN and it seems like it would work for me too.
- nathanaldensr 1y agoYou're also free to mischaracterize people and organizations based on your own perspectives and then act on those mischaracterizations, just like others are free to mischaracterize you and act on those mischaracterizations. That's the beauty of living in a free society; no one has to agree with you.