I love the idea of the app, but I think some greater coordination with the BDS movement would help. Instead of a simple "yes/no", tell the user of the app which category the product/company is listed in by BDS and let them make up their own mind.
For example, currently products in the "pressure targets" are displayed exactly the same as "consumer boycott target". As BDS says, boycotts are most effective when they're more highly targetted. So there's no problem with boycotting the pressure targets, but there is if someone uses the fact that they're boycotting a pressure target as an excuse to feel good and not boycott a boycott target. Being clearer could only help.
I tried at and found it a little misleading. If you click Barbie, the proof is a Variety article about Hollywood condemning Oct. 7. That was in the first 2 minutes of scrolling the list. Uninstalled. Gonna try BoycottX
It's a great app, unfortunately it's not open-source. According to the Exodus report, it contains some tracking SDKs, but their network activity can be blocked in DNS. It also displays an ad banner by default, but this can easily be turned off in the settings.
Slightly off topic, but wasn't there a general purpose boycott app? One that allowed one to figure out the political stance behind products. Initially it was marketed as the anti-woke app, but further investigation showed that anti-woke was only one profile of many you could subscribe to.
Holy crap that app has been review bombed like crazy on the Play store. Down to 2.0, claiming it uses your phone to make calls, kills your battery, etc. One even claiming it's "trying to push it's own agenda on you without letting you choose how to use for your own benefits" like wtf? The bots and trolls just need enough text to seem legitimate, I suppose.
2.2 for me now. Clicking the ratings it warns me "ratings are based on recent reviews from your region by people using similar devices to you". I didn't check it before, just relayed other comments.
I can just about guarantee that most of your day to day life is influenced by what people did in the past in regards to protests. Could be as huge as in civil war or smaller local protest to combat small issues. Your rights and comforts have been written in the blood of those who preceded you. Sometimes metaphorically, sometimes very real blood.
To clarify: the point I’m making is that I did an absolutely trivial, cursory accuracy check on one of the central points of the timeline of the article, and it was immediately and obviously discernible as false.
And yeah, the Israeli government these days is comically hypersensitive to stuff like this, i agree. I just have made a habit of checking easily verifiable facts like this, and trying to point out where I observe discrepancies. Sometimes it’s nothing; sometimes it’s something, but not really a related issue. Sometimes it’s highly pertinent. Regardless, I think it’s a good thing to point out, simply in the interest of showing others how easy it is to increase your media literacy and detect hinky propaganda-leaning ”journalism” that seems to be getting a lot more common these days across the political spectrum. (Addendum) And sometimes I am not as careful as I should be and I point out something entirely unrelated :D
The website you link being timesofisrael is a bit ironic. Great app nonetheless! If they're writing about it then it's working and is among the most probable reasons of the tiktok ban
Tik tok is not a journalism app. China does not have free speech, nor do they export it, and if what they are telling you is true, than let's talk about the genocide of the Uyghurs.
Damn, so it's been discussed for years but nothing happened. Israel commit atrocities (like always ) but unlike it's other domestic media, the US government and some of its billionaires can't censor, lie and push their narrative anymore, so the youth finally see the truth about the genocidal apartheid, ethno-state that is Israel. Now, they ban tiktok.
This is just another perspective you haven't thought about, or don't want to think about because of it's morbid implications about your country (if you're from USA)
I don't think they mean that tiktok is being banned over this app specifically: I just interpreted their comment to mean that tiktok has been an ongoing nuisance to the American mainstream political establishment.
I find the Times of Israel to be a decent source. They're obviously biased in favor of Israel, but it's not behind a paywall and they're far more informative than The NY Post, for instance. I think they seem less biased then the WSJ, frankly.
Overall, a useful insight into mainstream discourse in Israel with fairly accurate reporting.
Okey, but let's put it in another context. would you trust a British colonizer owned newspaper with its news articles exclusively being written by other white colonizers during the 80s Apartheid era south Africa ? Would you consider it to be a decent source of what's happening in South Africa and what's happening to the black population
? Heck, apartheid era south Africa wasn't even an ethno-state and wasn't doing a grand scale genocide. It's more akin to a nazi Germany newspaper.
Obviously not. But that's true to some degree for all news sources. I don't blindly trust any newspaper. I read Times of Israel through a lens of context, just like I do for the NY Times, The Guardian, The Intercept, etc.
I think it's incredibly useful to see what a country reads about itself. Not only is that true even for countries engaged atrocities: it's especially true for countries engaged in atrocities.
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