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Many big companies out there has links with this sort of thing.

IBM - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust#IBM_busin... Apple — FoxConn Disney - The allegations of Walt Disney's pedophillia. And so on.

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I got down voted so thought I'd explain better.

My point is, it can be very hard to avoid all companies on ethics alone.

Well I guess is everyone is doing it we just shouldn't care.

You can care, just don't get delusions of grandeur over boycotting one company for those reasons when you most likely are using the infrastructure of another company that does the exact same thing.

Thank you for explaining it more eloquently than I was.

For the record, that downvote wasn't mine.

And your point is fair, both the first one, the clarification and shinratdr's rewording :) (except I'd kinda steer clear of things that are merely "alleged"--but I don't know anything about the Disney case)

And indeed I don't really know about avoiding all of them, however I do believe it's important to spread word about it, so that people know, and corporations know they can't get away with everything, and hopefully cause at least some corporations to do right.

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