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Why do I feel I'm explaining the same thing over and over again?
(Issue can be elaborated structure, Evil must be personal, recommendation must be signalled conveniently, many options for producer notification)
(Why do I feel I'm explaining the same thing over and over again?)
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#Company X is doing some evil
#Company X is doing some evil
#Find out who are the owners of X
#Find out who are the owners of X and what companies X is doing business with
#Find out their other holdings
#Find out the owners' other holdings
#Aggregate the boycott to those other companies too (wishful thinking: and let the owners know why their stock is plunging)
#Aggregate the boycott to those other companies too (wishful thinking: and let the owners know why their stock is plunging)
#Iterate steps 3. and 4. untill you're picking berries, mushrooms, roots and hunting game with wooden spears ;)
#Iterate steps 3. and 4. untill you're picking berries, mushrooms, roots and hunting game with wooden spears ;)
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:::Yes but... (also realize that "Issue" can be expanded into say Ecoregion/HarmBeingDone/ActivityDoingThatHarm" and then Position taken on how to end it - so "I" can expand)... and more important how we use the information:
:::Yes but... (also realize that "Issue" can be expanded into say Ecoregion/HarmBeingDone/ActivityDoingThatHarm" and then Position taken on how to end it - so "I" can expand)... and more important how we use the information:
#) Start a [[boycott]] on the [[company]] doing the harmful things and it's associates ([[Importer]], [[Advertisement agency]]... whatever you can think of)
#) Send them [[feedback]] telling you'll pull out of the [[boycott]] the second they stop doing what is annoying you
#) Start an [[endorsment]] on it's companies providing replacement products for the evil company's products


:: and the [[Hardware Requirements|infrastructure]] to transport their information to [[consumer]]s. Then it's up to the [[consumer]]s to [[feedback|communicate]] their feelings to producers with [[words or wallets]] or both.
:: and the [[Hardware Requirements|infrastructure]] to transport their information to [[consumer]]s. Then it's up to the [[consumer]]s to [[feedback|communicate]] their feelings to producers with [[words or wallets]] or both.
:::Still requires my personal morality, idea of "evil", to be expressed in [[EvilML]] so that things I consider evil can turn on "green light" or "red light" on the shelf.  The fact that I considered but did not buy from that seller can be communicated directly, or later with details, or never.  Up to me.  But I am not reading or writing an essay for every single purchase.  I want to pre-load preferences and never see things that don't satisfy requirements online, and on the shelf, I want just the "OK/not" (i.e. "buyable/EVIL") signal.
:::Still requires my personal morality, idea of "evil", to be expressed in [[XML]] so that things I consider evil can turn on "green light" or "red light" on the shelf.  The fact that I considered but did not buy from that seller can be communicated directly, or later with details, or never.  Up to me.  But I am not reading or writing an essay for every single purchase.  I want to pre-load preferences and never see things that don't satisfy requirements online, and on the shelf, I want just the "OK/not" (i.e. "buyable/EVIL") signal.
 
::::Well. Either you have to choose some [[authority]] you [[trust]] (let me take a wild guess: Greenpeace) and let them decide on this matter or you can browse all available information and make decisions yourself. Once you've been through all the information and made some evaluation of the product in case you'd propably like [[markup]] that allows you to become the authority for other people that choose to trust you instead of using their time to go through all the information.
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