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I feel like there should be more companies to add to this boycott than just Microsoft. I don’t follow news enough to know who though.
From the About page:
"No Games For Genocide is a group of game workers, activists, union organisers, and journalists who care about the games industry, Palestine, and all people living under the violence of colonialism and imperialism. We want to expose and work to end the material and commercial ties between the games industry and the military industrial complex, with a particular focus on Israel’s ongoing genocide of Palestinians in the Gaza Strip.
The games industry’s complicity in normalising the presence of the military, and even in the development of military technology, has gone on for too long. Whether it be through the racist, militaristic content of the games themselves, having military recruiters at eSports events, or games being developed as military training simulators, there is a deep connection between games and genocide that needs to be broken. There are even games companies that work with businesses that directly benefit from or support Israel and its military.
We not only need to actually have conversations about how these games studios profit from financial links to genocide, but to take action against them. There is no place for genocide in the games industry, and we are committed to pushing against this complicity."
When they talk about specific ties, sure. If they are there, cool.
Some of the wording sounds like far too broad a stroke to paint, much like the 90s/2000s panic over music and gaming.
I mean, are we completely removing guns and military? So no Doom or Wolfenstein?
Microsoft provides the Israeli military with Azure cloud and AI services that are crucial in empowering and accelerating Israel’s genocidal war on 2.3 million Palestinians in the illegally occupied Gaza Strip.
This, for instance, is pretty real, but isn’t directly about their gaming arm.
Already boycott Microsoft for a myriad of other reasons, this just adds fuel to the fire.
Oh the Hamas friends again…
If it wasn’t just against jews, they’d boycott Azerbaijan too.
Yet to find an account from feddit. org that’s not blatantly racist.
I’m pretty sure its a troll fishing for engagement. Look at their avatar:
Seems kinda… antisemetic? Or trollish.
That makes sense. My lemmy client doesn’t show avatars.
I can’t say what I want to say to you…
But I can think it.
Well if you can think then you can say what you think about the wiping out of Nagorno-Karabakh. Or a society where 70% voted for Hamas.
The other society is one that travelled the globe to terrorise natives and settle in their land.
UK? You’re right, we mustn’t speak a colonial language like English that was brought to the world with force and pain. Any other suggestions? Esperanto?
I think I’m a lesser evil voter
