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The Sony psp/vita.


Microsoft did such a write up about a laptop.


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rent-seeking may help you understand the parent comments train of thought



Where I live a combo always costs slightly more than a burger+drink or burger+fries. Where the third item is “only” 25 cents more, for example.


Living in constant fear because of your gender and where you were born is direct harm. Being controlled by the opposite gender is a direct harm. Not being able to become educated because you are female is a direct harm to them AND men(and those in between).


But in this case why stop half way? Why sell them a phone (the OS) in the first place? Isn’t this (just like the app) condoning the behavior? Isn’t being their ally the same? Doing business with them in general?

Protesting the immoral behavior only by means that don’t really hurt your own bottom line is not actually doing much except cement the hypocrisy.


Are you not arguing and attempting to impose a stance on others right now? You don’t know which countries we are from and if our governments are aligned.

There’s a thing called human rights and we should all stand up for them.


I think the stockholders would understand that SA is absolutely wrong and both should yank the app.

This app goes against human decencies and rights and that overrides the legality.


Many times the content is never made available to Canadians! It’s quite frustrating because we want to their content but there is no legal way.


There's an upside to that, as buying that content would finance more of this kind of anti-consumer lobbying.


You raised awareness. (Slightly sarcasm)


Not only that, but you are also signalling to your environment that thy are not alone. That's also a key factor in many demonstrations.


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