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Calls to boycott tech company Stripe after CEO posts about recent visit to Israel (www.middleeasteye.net)
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Supporters of Palestine have called to boycott the payment platform Stripe after its CEO and co-founder Patrick Collison - an Irish-American billionaire who has advocated for Palestinians in the past - posted on social media on Wednesday about his run on the beach in Tel Aviv and how it was "great" to be back.

Many responded to his post on X by pointing out that he was only thirty minutes away from the Gaza Strip. Conservative estimates say nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza and two million have been under constant Israeli aggression as they fight what UN experts have called "'deliberate starvation".

Some drew comparisons to the Academy Award-winning film, Zone of Interest, which depicts the everyday lives of Germans who lived next to the Auschwitz concentration camp during World War Two.

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[–] 32 points 2 years ago* (1 child)

The majority of people who use stripe probably dont even know it, good luck boycotting that.

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    • [–] 6 points 2 years ago

    Reminiscent of "Travellers of the Third Reich" by Julia Boyd

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    [–] 2 points 2 years ago (1 child)

    ok. what should we use instead? paypal?

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  • [–] 2 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    Trocador.app, Coingate, etc.. They have a feature called AnonPay. Ik it's for crypto, but still.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago

    these only handle crypto. they're not a replacement for stripe, and saying that it is is a very large stretch. stripe is used for handling fiat payments, and there's a reason even Liberapay only supports that and Paypal: because all others are worse or questionable.

    such services (recurring payment services) can't really make use of crypto right now anyway, can they? they would either need to store your keys, or create a specialized wallet program and stop being a service, but the latter would also remove any possible transparency that the donation receiver may want to provide

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    • [–] 0 points 2 years ago

    Yeah, let's destroy this company and make sure that all those people will lose their jobs and livelihoods because the CEO was tone deaf.

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    [+] -7 points 2 years ago (3 children)

    Alright, then they’ll just have to stop consuming a lot of things they buy online. Also they can’t buy from places that use Stripe terminals. I’d like to see an entire group of people get up from their lounges and buy grocery in person because their local home grown market with home delivery uses stripe checkout.

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  • [–] [S] 37 points 2 years ago (40 children)

    Boycots are not only for consumers. They can also be implemented by vendors. Stripe is a large company, but it has competitors.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 years ago* (last edited 2 years ago) (1 child)

    If someone gives a shit about this, they'll find a way to avoid Stripe. This might surprise you because you've presumably have never given enough of a shit about a cause to actually modify your behavior for it, but deciding to participate in a boycott does in fact mean having to sacrifice your own convenience and limiting the options available to you.

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  • [–] 0 points 2 years ago*

    Well I’ve hardly ever seen people genuinely follow through on what they say. The people I met are mostly all bark but no bite.

    As for myself? I’m an anarchist. I really don’t give a shit for either side of the argument. I’ll gladly watch the world burn :)

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