Pulled all rockets merch from their stores in china. Just the rockets. so much for a company that has Kap as their beacon and “ freedom expression”. Please merge with the other thread if you have to mods, but I feel like people are really letting Nike off the hook here.
Wonder if it's just Rockets organization-specific merch e.g. "R" logo. If it affects the players too, then that sucks for Ryno, Tyson, and Thabo... Also, we would have to give up hopes on landing Ariza 3.0. List of Nike Sponsorships
SMH China didn't even start all these ****. We were literally waiting for the new season to start 2 weeks ago, until Morey dropped the bomb. What did we do wrong? Get the hell over it and give this forum back to Rox bball. Enjoy the new season.
So y’all are gonna toss all your Nike gear in the trash and no longer buy any of their gear right? Or is this just gonna be a case where people yell out “fck Nike” online while lacing up their Nike shoes to go hoop, go to the gym, go for a walk, etc. Are y’all gonna toss your Iphones in the trash as well or nah? China is Apple’s third-largest market, and it brings the company $44 billion per year in sales, plus countless ethical headaches. Last week brought several, all surrounding the ongoing anti-government protests in Hong Kong. Apple hid the Taiwanese flag emoji from its keyboard for those tapping away on the island. It booted the news outlet Quartz from the Chinese version of its app store after its aggressive coverage of the unrest. And then there was HKmap.live, an app designed for Hong Kongers to avoid law enforcement amid violent crackdowns. Apple, at first, rejected the app. Then it approved it. Then, finally, it removed it. Apple says its decision to yank HKmap.live wasn’t a matter of capitulation to the Chinese regime, but rather of internal enforcement. The tool’s tracking function was abused to attack police, as well as to commit crimes in unpatrolled areas, and that ran counter to Apple’s guidelines. But the company’s reversal came after the ruling party’s official newspaper, the People’s Daily, declared that Apple’s support for “toxic apps” made the company “an accomplice to the rioters.” Quartz was another story. Apple complies with local laws wherever it operates, and President Xi Jinping’s laws don’t respect press freedom. Apple removed the app because China said to do so, just as it removed the New York Times’s almost three years ago. Apple justifies acceding to despotic demands by arguing that it is the cost of operating in China, and that the Chinese people are better off with a big U.S. firm around than without.” All these companies will bow down to China if the revenue is high.
I just see a bunch of lip service and high horse riding here. Once they put down their phone, back to reality. If somebody can post proof they trashed their iPhones, I will donate 100 bucks to the tip jar.
Why stop at IPhones and Nike. Let's go all in. https://www.sourcify.com/the-top-10-products-manufactured-in-china-in-2018/
there’s a lot of e-activism going on right now sh*t, everyone might as well boycott the NBA as well since they’re still hoping to salvage a relationship with China despite knowing what’s going on in HK Apple, Nike, Adidas, or *insert any big company with significant financial ties to China* is more than happy to due business with China regardless of what is going on in HK, and I can guarantee that none of the heads of these corporations will speak out against China because they’re not trying to lose that revenue stream
This seems like when people weren't going to watch the NFL anymore because some players were kneeling for the national anthem. You know they still watched.
Any big company is doing something shady, don't kid yourself into thinking that not buying Nike and Apple, but owning Adidas and a Google / Windows / Linux makes you an activist / better person. Unless you go fully Fairphone, buying locally manufactured products, fair trade / green stuff then you're still in some way contributing to slave labour, extortion, etc. And it's just China to the idiots who now want to boycott anything made there. Glad plenty already pointed out the fake activist yelling on here like @Reeko and @duluth111222.
You'd be a fool to throw away what you've already paid for. I will never buy Nike or Apple products ever again though.
everyone boycotting Nike should go ahead and boycott Apple too...if u happen to play Call of Duty, go ahead and toss that in the trash right now...there are many more things that should get tossed and never supported again effective immediately more on Apple removing some of its apps In Hong Kong, Charles Mok, a legislative councillor representing the information technology industry, posted on Twitter a letter he sent to Mr. Cook, Apple’s CEO, in which he said the app helped citizens avoid dangerous areas. “We Hongkongers [sic] will definitely look closely at whether Apple chooses to uphold its commitment to free expression and other basic human rights, or become an accomplice for Chinese censorship and oppression,” Mr. Mok wrote in the letter dated Oct. 10. Activation Blizzard Inc removed a Honk Kong player’s VOD replay of a Hearthstone match and banned the player from Hearthstone esports for a year after the masked player called for the liberation of the region in a post-game interview. Activation Blizzard Inc produces several video games such as CoD. let’s look at Google shall we Google employees have set off a fiery company-wide debate in recent days by posting messages of solidarity with Hong Kong protesters in mailing lists and message boards visible to Google’s roughly 100,000 employees. Many are frustrated with the company’s decision to remove a pro-Hong Kong protester mobile game, The Revolution of Our Times, from the Google Play store and feel the company should have handled the situation differently. The issue was important enough to be addressed by leadership at the company’s most recent all-hands “TGIF” meeting, according to several sources. And the discussions have stoked tensions between employees who support the Hong Kong protesters and believe that tech companies like Google have an ethical imperative to support democratic movements, and some pro-Chinese government employees who say that such discussions are inappropriate on internal servers. There are many more. All these big companies don’t want to anger China, and this has been known for ages.
I’m just happy to see some folks got the extra money to buy Nike. Shiz literally twice the price for a logo.