Comment by chocolatefor3 | Hacker News Reader

Comment by chocolatefor3 | Hacker News Reader

I am an American, here is what I am going to do.

There's currently an USTR tariff review session happening right now in Washington. A bunch of companies are protesting against tariffs on China, saying they can't live without China. Some of these companies are:

- Best buy

- American Apparel

- Kenneth Col

- iRobot

- Roku

- Element Electronics

- Hallmark Cards

I will not buy from these companies for the rest of my life, as well as any other companies that have products that are 'made in China'. These companies must have heard about the concentration camps, and possible organ harvesting/slave labor in those camps, and choose not to divest away. These companies are horrendous actors who choose freely to prop up a regime like his.

> I will not buy from these companies for the rest of my life, as well as any other companies that have products that are 'made in China'.

Good luck with that. I hope you don't need any technology in your life since nearly all modern computing components are made in China. The only way to avoid Chinese imports is to live on a homestead and make everything yourself.

Good point. I'd like to find an article on phones with the least amount of, or no, Chinese parts. Anybody have anything like this on hand? Otherwise, I'll start researching and put an article together.

Similarly, I'd like to do the same for Laptops. Toshiba, Fujitsu, Samsung, Panasonic, Sharp may not come with "made in China" labels, but components will be Chinese.

I've been googling a bit and surprisingly am not coming up with pure non-Chinese machines. Given that some people believe China puts spyware on devices at the hardware level this surprises me - surely there's hyper-paranoid out there, or people selling to the hyper-paranoid market?

You're aware this is just a symbolic and futile action, right? Boycotting every company "tainted" by the Chinese is unfeasible if you keep your standard of living. I'm not talking about refusing to buy t-shirts, but cars.

> American Apparel

Wow, they've come a long way from how they were founded. Sad to see

What about Apple and Microsoft? Should add these two to the list.

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