This is a list of products people and things that I do not support with news articles as citations. I will go out of my way to not support these companies or people in any way I can. I suggest that you boycott them as well.
Bad companies
- Sony
- Changing there TOS to prevent people from class action law suits and there rights. Note this is not legal in Canada
Source: Gamersoptout.com - Creating SecuROM a root kit for there products.
- Electronic Arts
- Seven-day, 85-hour work weeks, uncompensated either by overtime pay or time off. EA’s “put up or shut up and leave . . . human resources policy”
EA Spouse and the Crisis of Video Game Labour: Enjoyment, Exclusion, Exploitation, Exodus - Using SecuROM in there products.
- Carrier IQ
- Installing root kits on 1000′s of cell phones. When a researcher figures out what they are doing send DMCA taken down notices and try to scare them from reviling there findings. Case was later dropped when Carrier IQ found that they had no case
Source: Mobile-rootkit-maker-tries-to-silence-critical-android-dev
Bad People
- Annette Spicuzza – University of California Police Chief.
- Close range pepper spaying non violent protesters and causing permanent damage to some people. Video
Source: UC-Davis-police-chief-leave
- Jim Chu – Vancouver, BC, Police Chief
- Blames escape goats instead of the real problem. Police chief Jim Chu blames Vancouver riot on “criminals, anarchists and thugs”
- Suggests that all people wearing masks are a danger to the city. Police chiefs back anti-mask bill
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