Boycotts

Get our free weekly email for all the latest cinematic news from our film critic Clarisse LoughreyGet our The Life Cinematic email for freeDoug Liman, director of the forthcoming remake of Road House, has said he will be boycotting the premiere of the film over Amazon Prime’s decision for a streaming-only release.The film, which is a remake of the original 1989 film that starred Patrick Swayze, follows an ex-UFC middleweight fighter who ends up working at a rowdy bar in the Florida Keys, played by Brokeback Mountain…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain What do Starbucks, McDonald's, Target and Amazon have in common, other than being some of the biggest corporations in the world? Boycotts. At some point in the last year, each of them has been the target of a consumer boycott, either on social media with hashtags or in person with protesters…

Neil Young has announced he is boycotting X, formerly Twitter, amid the ongoing outcry against an antisemitic tweet made by the company’s owner Elon Musk.Writing on his website, Young said: “We are stopping all use of X that we can control. For reasons that should be obvious to the richest man on Earth, we are taking this action against his company.” He shared an image of Musk with the caption: “Tesla should fly flags of love – not hate.”Last week Musk agreed with an antisemitic statement posted to X, describing a tweet…

Nearly two years years after pulling his music from Spotify due to COVID vaccine misinformation on Joe Rogan’s podcast, Neil Young has decided to stop using X (formerly known as Twitter) because of Elon Musk’s recent antisemitic statements. “We are stopping all use of X that we can control,” Young wrote in the Neil Young Archives. “For reasons that should be obvious to the richest man on Earth, we are taking this action against his company.” (The post also included a photo of Musk with a caption that reads “Teslas…

In a series of interviews, Reddit CEO Steve Huffman has acknowledged an ongoing Reddit blackout has caused a “fair amount of trouble,” but has no plans to walk back the site’s controversial changes to pricing. Earlier in the week, thousands of Reddit’s largest subreddits — including gaming communities r/PS5, r/Terraria, /rEscapeFromTarkov and r/Gaming— switched to an inaccessible private mode as part of an organised blackout. The blackout is in response to a proposed price hike for Reddit’s Application Programming…

If you are a conservative consumer in America right now, shopping is getting weird. You’re not supposed to drink Bud Light or shop at Target or eat at Chick-fil-A or watch Fox News. It’s Pride month, meaning all the companies have gone gay again, despite you trying to make clear that you’d really rather they not. Maybe you’ve signed up for alerts to start getting warnings about allegedly “woke” businesses, and the list of brands there is getting long — Nike, Adidas, Speedo, Lululemon, the LA Dodgers. The alerts also…

DEI, short for diversity, equity, and inclusion, is the latest three-letter term to become a target of the right. That focus burst into view this week as conservatives went after Chick-fil-A, a fast food restaurant they’ve often supported in the past given its Christian roots and its prior donations to anti-LGBTQ groups. Despite Republicans’ longtime backing, the chain’s decision to employ a vice president of DEI has prompted backlash from some who now slam the company for being too “woke” for considering policies…

Photo via Lionsgate John Wick: Chapter 4 has been released to unprecedentedly positive responses from audiences and critics alike. The fourth installment in the Keanu Reeves-led franchise had a historic performance at the box office and on critics’ charts for an action-thriller, leading to a record-breaking domestic opening and being called the most excellent action film in the last ten years. The praises for the film’s action choreography and Reeves’ heartfelt acting work are continuously coming in, with…

By Institute for Operations Research and the Management Sciences December 31, 2022A boycott is a form of protest in which individuals or groups refuse to buy or use a particular product or service in order to show their opposition to a company or entity. Boycotts are often organized as a way to apply pressure on companies or governments to change their policies or practices. They can be motivated by a wide range of issues, such as human rights violations, environmental concerns, or political beliefs.The political…

Credit: Unsplash/CC0 Public Domain During 2020, the use of terms like the "China virus" by public officials and in the media negatively connected COVID-19 to China, where the virus originated, causing a detrimental impact. New research from scholars of the hospitality industry at Penn State and the University of Houston found that this type of virus naming contributed to hostility toward and boycotting of Chinese restaurants and…