While tens of thousands of people have joined Facebook groups in Sweden and Denmark calling for no longer buying American, Norwegian company Haltbakk Bunkers has announced that it will stop supplying US military vessels with fuel.
  • Lanske@lemmy.worldEnglish
    41·
    30 minutes ago

    I know that my country - The Netherlands imports a lot from the US, so i am trying not to. Ditched all my Meta accounts, closed Amazon account/prime and Kindle, moved away from Google to several other services, stopped several streaming services and when we buy products from the supermarket actively check wheter products are from the US, and replace them with local/EU/Canadian products.

  • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
    161·
    2 hours ago

    And so: Hello Lemmy! Here I am! Left ‘socials’ like reddit, dropped hotmail and google accounts … i’ts not much but it’s start

  • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
    7·
    1 hour ago

    Migrating cloud servers to European hosters. Give EU money to improve/build a linux desktop. Use that desktop in government, schools, universities… (instead of Windows). Fork Firefox. Host fediverse services and use them where the governments use Twitter / TikTok / Insta.

    Harder: Mandate for mobile phones with a user installable OS (Cyanogen etc.) Force tech companies to provide total transparency about data usage. Cancel any safe harbor agreements.

    In the end, everything the Open Source crowd wished for.

    Btw, I’d have no issues with American / Russian / China hosted open source stuff when we can review what it does. Ah, ok, a “european code review agency” might be a thing.

  • PieMePlenty@lemmy.worldEnglish
    1·
    1 hour ago

    What exactly does the US produce that is imported into the EU? Consumer market, of course, where one person has choice in the matter.

  • freebee@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    35·
    5 hours ago

    Here’s to hoping trump tariff war makes those stupid American pick-up trucks a lot more expensive to buy in EU. I hope the douchebags that bought them before have to pay way higher prices for parts now.

  • Novice_Idiot@lemmy.wtfEnglish
    441·
    7 hours ago

    Can we collectively decide not to respect American intellectual property laws to really hit the tech sector where it hurts? We don’t get that many physical goods over here but most of our software is American owned. I advocate for not paying American tech companies anymore.

    • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
      31·
      1 hour ago

      If we start ignoring the laws, we are no better than Trump and his clowns clan. Go for the alternatives instead. Also, If you keep using the US software they still get all anvertisement and telemetry which is more valuable to them than the software itself anyway.

        • redlemace@lemmy.worldEnglish
          1·
          15 minutes ago

          You’re entitled to that opinion, and feel free to suggest a change of law, but for now … it’s still the law. And obeying only the laws that suits your goals is very much Trump/MAGA style. Let’s not get down to their level.

    • froh42@lemmy.worldEnglish
      271·
      6 hours ago

      We need our own tech stack, that is at least verifyable. It’s due time to kick out the American tech giants from government projects etc.

      With America possibly becoming the new Russia it is just not safe to rely on Microsoft, Apple, Aws etc.

      We need an Europan open source stack.

    • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
      28·
      5 hours ago

      EU regulations that can be triggered in response to tariffs include an option to make that completely legal

      Edit because I’m getting asked for a source: EU Anti Coercion Instrument that got passed in 2021 and came into effect in December 2023: https://eur-lex.europa.eu/legal-content/EN/TXT/HTML/?uri=OJ%3AL_202302675

      Specifically Annex I, paragraph 7:

      ANNEX I

      Union response measures pursuant to Article 8

      […]

      1. The imposition of restrictions on the protection of intellectual property rights or their commercial exploitation, in relation to rightholders that are nationals of the third country concerned, which may amount, as necessary, to the non-performance of applicable international obligations with respect to trade-related aspects of intellectual property rights.

      This applies to copyright and patents, but not trademarks as far as I know.

      • beveradb@lemm.eeEnglish
        5·
        7 hours ago

        This sounds really interesting, do you have a link or anything I could look for in a quick search to learn more?

        • tty5@lemmy.worldEnglish
          3·
          6 hours ago

          Search for Anti-Coercion Instrument, the one that came into effect in December 2023

  • Saleh@feddit.orgEnglish
    213·
    6 hours ago

    If you want to learn how to do successful boycott campaigns, you should look for the BDS Movement, that has worked to spread awareness to boycott companies affiliated with the illegal Israeli occupation and genocide against Palestinians.

    And no surprise, you will find many US companies in there. Also it should come as no surprise, that the US wants to outlaw even talking about boycotts in many states, as well as corrupt European politicians like in Germany attacking the notion of boycotting companies involved with brutal crimes against humanity.

    We need to join efforts in reducing the economic power of Imperialism, whichever shape it takes.

    https://bdsmovement.net/

  • Harvey656@lemmy.worldEnglish
    551·
    12 hours ago

    “Calls for Europe to stop eating garbage food like Americans.” Sounds like a good idea to me.

    • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
      18·
      12 hours ago

      We have our own garbage food. If you don’t go to McDonald’s or Burger King, you can go to Hesburger or whatever else your region has. Admittedly still inspired by American garbage food, but profits European companies.

        • boonhet@lemm.eeEnglish
          6·
          10 hours ago

          Finland and Baltics mostly. It’s the biggest chain here in Estonia by locations (unless you count gas stations), but probably 2nd in popularity because McDonald’s seems more popular. Idk if they put crack on their fries or what, but it’s just not comparable.

  • customcombos@lemm.eeEnglish
    45·
    12 hours ago

    I’m American (embarrassed to say that right now) and came to visit this site to get off Reddit. Even we are exploring non-US options.

    • Spaniard@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5·
      4 hours ago

      Don’t be embarrassed of being an American, you can be embarrassed of your politicians, of the people that represent you without being embarrassed of where you were born. You can criticize all the bads things in your country (and your country has done) while also being proud of the good things!

      But to be fair, you were warned about political parties from the start of your democracy, and even with the warning having just 2 is terrible.

  • NotLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
    29·
    12 hours ago

    Anyone else in northern Europe noticing that all the US products are the shitty ones you never buy anyway? I think the only American stuff I ever buy is steam games. No food. I was already boycotting Starbucks and MacDonalds over Palestine.

    • heavydust@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      2·
      1 hour ago

      I’ve been boycotting Starbucks for 10 years because it’s shit coffee, and McDonalds for 30 years because it’s shit food.

      • NotLemming@lemm.eeEnglish
        1·
        1 hour ago

        Yeah… It’s 24 hour opening so It was sometimes my shitty late night takeaway and I’d always regret it - my guts took 2 days to recover no matter what I ate… And apparently the MacDonald’s food in america is even worse. Also trump eats it every day, so I can guess why he has to wear diapers.

  • gravitas_deficiency@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
    1091·
    15 hours ago

    American here: genuinely, go for it. If you want to be even more highly targeted, you can also take a page out of Canada’s book: they’re encouraging people to target things that are produced in red states specifically, in addition to a general push for a boycott. Bourbon (from Kentucky), for instance.