• CriticalMiss@lemmy.world
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    12 days ago

    Not to be that guy but this is kinda performative. Any relatively big tech company has an R&D hub in Israel. Intel, AMD, Google, Meta, etc. If you boycott them all you’d find yourself living in a cave since Israel is involved in almost anything digital.

  • Kintarian@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    15 days ago

    I often wonder why people think Google is less evil than Apple. The oligarchs aren’t giving us choices. Every big corporation and most small businesses are evil by design. Are people supposed to move into a cabin in the woods and go off grid?

    • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
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      15 days ago

      They also fund the IDF and are involved with illegal settlements.

      Are we sure about that?

      I’ve used one of these corporate donation matching programs before (obviously I’m not donating to Israeli or IDF charities). Its essentially a large donation platform and web interface that allows corporations to offer the charity donation/matching systems to its employees. The donation platform Apple apparently uses is called “Benevity”.

      To be clear, I don’t believe the corporate employer chooses the charities listed, it simply allows donations to all the charities the platform has registered. When I was searching for charities I donate to, I found many small obscure charities which surprised me. This suggests to me it doesn’t take much to get registered if any action at all. Does Benevity simply get a list of every 501©(3) organization registered with the IRS?

      From your article:

      “Apple will be expected to take swift action to investigate and potentially cease matching donations to organisations linked to the Israeli military and illegal settlement activities in the Occupied Palestinian Territories.”

      My question would be: Do we know for sure that any Apple employees even donated to these Israeli/IDF charities (and therefore received matched donations from Apple)? Just because the charities are listed on Benevity doesn’t mean anyone actually donated? If zero Apple employees chose to make donations, then Apple would also have made zero donations. So before we crucify Apple for donating, do we have proof that there actually were any actual donations made?

      I will say the effort to have the Israeli/IDF charities delisted as choices to Apple employees through Benevity is still a reasonable request, but that is a far smaller need/sin than actual donations to Israeli/IDF charities.

  • cheese_greater@lemmy.world
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    15 days ago

    Not only that, they hire ex-Mossad/IDF tech folks to work on critical chip and software. Its like the fox has a licensing agreement with the henhouse owner

  • lemmysmash@piefed.socialEnglish
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    15 days ago

    Thanks Greta. I didn’t know that. I’ve had a pretty bad opinion on Apple. Now it has somewhat improved.

  • Doorbook@lemmy.world
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    14 days ago

    TIL , apple city location is built on top of Al-Haram, Jaffa a Palestinian village where it’s people got kicked out in 1984