rooshvforum.network is a fully functional forum: you can search, register, post new threads etc...
Old accounts are inaccessible: register a new one, or recover it when possible. x


New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping
#1

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping

http://www.forbes.com/sites/clareoconnor...ping-cart/

In her keynote speech at last year’s annual Netroots Nation gathering, Darcy Burner pitched a seemingly simple idea to the thousands of bloggers and web developers in the audience. The former Microsoft programmer and congressional candidate proposed a smartphone app allowing shoppers to swipe barcodes to check whether conservative billionaire industrialists Charles and David Koch were behind a product on the shelves.

Burner figured the average supermarket shopper had no idea that buying Brawny paper towels, Angel Soft toilet paper or Dixie cups meant contributing cash to Koch Industries through its subsidiary Georgia-Pacific.
Reply
#2

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping

Nice, I like the idea. Just downloaded this app
Reply
#3

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping

Quote:Quote:

At the time, Burner created a mock interface for her app, but that’s as far as she got. She was waiting to find the right team to build out the back end, which could be complicated given often murky corporate ownership structures.

In other words, she was waiting to find men to do the real heavy-lifting, which would require some actual smarts and technical skills. I'm sure she got plenty of experience at MSFT leveraging men's work, though, fortunately for her--and it sounds like she had her hopes answered.

What's the intersection between frequent supermarket shoppers, people who know who the Koch brothers are, and people who are consistent app users? Effectively nill, no?

#NoSingleMoms
#NoHymenNoDiamond
#DontWantDaughters
Reply
#4

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping

This sounds like a good idea. I would like the app so I can know what to buy to support the Koch brothers.

Rico... Sauve....
Reply
#5

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping

I would be concerned about it being abused, the way the Southern Poverty Law Center list is.

But it's just too fucking unwieldy to matter. Like anyone's got time to scan every thing they buy to see if it's politically correct.

"Alpha children wear grey. They work much harder than we do, because they're so frightfully clever. I'm awfully glad I'm a Beta, because I don't work so hard. And then we are much better than the Gammas and Deltas. Gammas are stupid. They all wear green, and Delta children wear khaki. Oh no, I don't want to play with Delta children. And Epsilons are still worse. They're too stupid to be able to read or write. Besides they wear black, which is such a beastly color. I'm so glad I'm a Beta."
--Aldous Huxley, Brave New World
Reply
#6

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping

Quote: (05-16-2013 09:12 AM)Blackhawk Wrote:  

Like anyone's got time to scan every thing they buy to see if it's politically correct.

Probably something you might use if you were unsure about a particular product versus scanning everything. You might have a general sense. For instance in this case you know this dudes deal with a lot of shit:

Georgia-Pacific became a wholly owned subsidiary of Koch Industries in 2005 after the two brothers paid $21 billion to take over the company and take it private. Georgia-Pacific’s North American brands include: Quilted Northern (toilet paper), Angel Soft (toilet paper), Brawny (paper towels), Sparkle (paper towels), Soft ‘n Gentle (toilet paper), Mardi Gras (paper towels), Vanity Fair (paper napkins), and the Dixie brand of tabletop products.
Reply
#7

New App Lets You Boycott Koch Brothers, Monsanto By Scanning Your Shopping

Imagine the horror when you scan product after product and it turns out that all cereals and breads belong to Monsanto.

"Imagine" by HCE | Hitler reacts to Battle of Montreal | An alternative use for squid that has never crossed your mind before
Reply


Forum Jump:


Users browsing this thread: 1 Guest(s)