A buycott is the opposite of a boycott. Buycott helps you to organize your everyday consumer spending so that it reflects your principles.
Example: During the SOPA/PIPA debate in 2012, a number of companies pushed to pass legislation that reduced online freedom of expression, while other companies fought hard to oppose the legislation. With Buycott, a campaign can be quickly created around a cause, with the goal of targeting companies with a boycott unless they change their position, or buycotting a company to show your support.
When you use Buycott to scan a product, it will look up the product, determine what brand it belongs to, and figure out what company owns that brand (and who owns that company, ad infinitum). It will then cross-check the product owners against the companies and brands included in the campaigns you've joined, in order to tell you if the scanned product conflicts with one of your campaign commitments.
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If programmers spent time and energy on tools that can be made available to the masses, such as these these then things could make a quick come back,... but more needs to be done than just boycott the companies supporting such terrible causes. I'm afraid if we made a comeback in this way the seriousness of the actions of these companies and our leaders, wont be taken serious enough to change the errors the elite will find more loopholes. I'm sure I'm over analyzing. Its certainly a good thing.
Wow, this is a very useful tool. It even tells you if the product contains GMOs.