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.
I don’t even know wtf Stripe is, but by all means boycott the company because you don’t like what the CEO did. Fuck the employees who might get laid off as a result, the important thing is to feel like avenging angels and lash out at a CEO. Brilliant!
ok. what should we use instead? paypal?
Trocador.app, Coingate, etc… They have a feature called AnonPay. Ik it’s for crypto, but still.
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
Reminiscent of “Travellers of the Third Reich” by Julia Boyd
The majority of people who use stripe probably dont even know it, good luck boycotting that.
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.
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.
Boycots are not only for consumers. They can also be implemented by vendors. Stripe is a large company, but it has competitors.
A tobacco shop near us just moved from stripe to another vendor.
Guessing it was tobacco law related or something internal to their business, but I’ll let them know about this too.
(they’re Palestinian)
Yeah, and as a company owner I now I have to invest good amounts of money to switch providers? Spend development resources, administrative resources and whatnot to make a switch because the guy made a tweet you don’t like? And what do I do if the next providers’s CEO does something you don’t like?
Come on, this nonsense has to stop
Him visiting a beach in Israel isn’t the same as him saying “kill all the Palestinians”. This extreme knee jerk reaction is what has caused so much shit already, can we please PLEASE just stop it?
Reply with a tweet that maybe he is a bit insensitive, and please let it be done with that. This screeching isn’t solving anything, it isn’t helping Palestinians, it’s just making life miserable for more people.
Just calm down
“Just calm down” is better articulated as, “stop saying things that make me feel uncomfortable feelings.”
The rhetoric of manipulation and abusers.
Yes stating you like visiting an Apartheid state while it is in the middle of a genocide is the same as saying ‘kill all the Palestinians’
How else would you interpret someone saying “good to be back in Nazi Germany” at the height of the Holocaust.
You are not expected to participate in every boycott. If you cannot avoid using something you can keep using it. But if you do not care much about a certain brand and it is on the boycott list, consider using alternatives
Isn’t it enough for you simply to not participate? What’s your actual problem with other people doing it?