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Calls to boycott tech company Stripe after CEO posts about recent visit to "Israel" | Middle East Eye (www.middleeasteye.net)

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[–] Feline@hexbear.net 42 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Conservative estimates say nearly 44,000 Palestinians have been killed in Israel's war on Gaza and two million have been under constant Israeli aggression as they fight what UN experts have called "'deliberate starvation".

This is wrong. 44k (or whatever the official # is) is not a "Conservative estimate". It's not an estimate at all. That's just a count of the people whose bodies have been collected and tallied by the Gaza health ministry. "Conservative estimates" are still over 100k.

It goes to show how complete the propaganda has been, that a pro-Palestine publication would (unintentionally) use deceptive/inaccurate phrasing like that.

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 6 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

Someone brought up a few months back the sus funding of MEE

[–] miz@hexbear.net 4 points 3 weeks ago* (last edited 3 weeks ago) (1 children)

are you sure that wasn't Middle East Observer? I can't remember either. there's like five of them, there's also a "Middle East Spectator" and a "Middle East Monitor"

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 5 points 3 weeks ago

Omg yeah it could literally be any of those

[–] redline@lemmygrad.ml 2 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

can you elaborate?

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 3 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

That’s all I saw. Someone mentioned it the news mega but I haven’t seen anything else about it

[–] redline@lemmygrad.ml 1 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

zei squirrel claimed MEE is turkish propaganda last night

[–] FloridaBoi@hexbear.net 2 points 3 weeks ago

They are posting a lot of Syrian rebel propaganda right now on IG

[–] sexywheat@hexbear.net 19 points 3 weeks ago

That's a pretty tall order. Stripe is integrated into a lot of ecommerce websites.

[–] blobjim@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

Liberaoay uses Stripe, wonder if there are any alternatives

https://en.liberapay.com/about/faq#fees

[–] morrowind@lemmy.ml 7 points 3 weeks ago

Shit, PayPal is not any better

[–] TheDoctor@hexbear.net 16 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

I wonder if you could write a browser extension that specifically blocks stripe integrations. Or is stripe more of a backend integration thing?

[–] propter_hog@hexbear.net 13 points 3 weeks ago

You could definitely block their frontend integration with noscript. I tend to avoid companies that use them anyway because they're annoying as hell. This is just one more reason.