The Motorola Signoture phone has finally released… And it’s utterly expensive with a price pf $1600. Jeez. Only the rich can get privacy, I guess. Might as well buy the outdated Pixel 10

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      if you feel comfortable giving your hard earned money to a company that is blacklisted by the United Nations for participation of a genocide of kids,— yes israel is literally killing children and Motorola is actively participating in that.

      Then nothing i say as an answer to your question will matter.

      Note: you can see the UN listed two motorolla entities, one is an israel subsidiary that was created to wash the corporate name, but then further investigation clearly established that the mother corporation is still supplying IDF with technology to continue performing terrorist state activity.

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        Two legal entities doesn’t mean they’re washing their corporate name, both are still called Motorola. It’s completely normal to have subsidiaries for countries you have employees or do a lot of business in, it greatly simplifies accounting. It’s even normal to have subsidiaries for your different business activities. I suspect Motorola is actually quite proud of their work in Israel, it’s an American company after all.

        Buying a phone from Motorola Mobility, a completely unrelated company owned by the Chinese spyware company Lenovo, gives money to neither of those companies.

        Instead, you’d want to avoid using telecoms that use Motorola tech. In North America that includes Verizon, AT&T, Bell, Rogers and Telus, possibly others. Europe has too many to even find.

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          Chinese spyware company Lenovo

          I’d much rather give my data to a Chinese company than a USian one.

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        Yes I understand all of that. I also understand that Motorola is a large conglomerate with several separate corporate divisions that are largely unrelated, so the buisness of one division has no effect on another.

        But if you feel comfortable with mearly performic symbols of ineffective action, nothing I can say will matter to you.

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          As i said earlier nothing i would say will matter to you if you think boycotting a UN blacklisted corporate is debatable

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            But you aren’t boycotting Motorola Solutions.
            You’re boycotting Motorola Mobility.

            They’re two seperate and unrelated companies.