Youtube is on the LDI boycott list

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(of companies who support abortion). LDI meaning Life Decisions International ( fightpp.org ), a pro-life watchdog group. I bring it up because on opening the main Catholic.com page, I got a ad for the site hosted on youtube.
 
If you try to boycott every organisation that does something that is not in line with Catholic teaching you will end up boycotting 99% of all organisations. It’s a waste of time anyway; only a tiny number of people will boycott a large list and it won’t make a difference to YouTube or any other multinational org.

It’s very remote material cooperation, if even. The Catholic church doesn’t require that of its members.
 
There are many good, Catholic channels on YouTube. Also, in order to boycott every anti-Catholic company, one would have to be very limited in their consumer choices. I used to boycott Burger King and Oreo’s (Nabisco) for their pro-gay advertisements, but after the Supreme Court decided to change the law and make gay “marriage” legal, it was almost impossible to boycott all the companies that celebrated by making their logo rainbow colored.
 
CRUSADER_KING said:
There are many good, Catholic channels on YouTube. Also, in order to boycott every anti-Catholic company, one would have to be very limited in their consumer choices. I used to boycott Burger King and Oreo’s (Nabisco) for their pro-gay advertisements, but after the Supreme Court decided to change the law and make gay “marriage” legal, it was almost impossible to boycott all the companies that celebrated by making their logo rainbow colored.
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A better thing to do is use companies who aren’t Anti-Catholic as much as possible and build them up. Boycotting does nothing because it’s impossible to get enough people to choose a company they all use, and continuously boycott it. Also many companies own smaller companies, so you’d have to constantly ensure you were not accidentally supporting them.

I do recommend if you can find an alternative to use it. For instance, last year Doritos rolled out their Rainbow Chips for a limited time. Now I make my own Corn Chips and season them the way I want, and they test better fresh.
 
ShrodingersCat said:
If you try to boycott every organisation that does something that is not in line with Catholic teaching you will end up boycotting 99% of all organisations. It’s a waste of time anyway; only a tiny number of people will boycott a large list and it won’t make a difference to YouTube or any other multinational org.

It’s very remote material cooperation, if even. The Catholic church doesn’t require that of its members.
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Yeah, you dont find that a bit coincidental? LOL (the fact that 'cooperation with evil in anyway in this world would be sooooo tough to avoid), its made so prevalent for this very reason.

Jesus never said life in this world abiding by his laws would be easy in anyway shape or form, it might be extremely inconvenient to avoid things like this, but really that should not matter, and actually I have a feeling when we finally stand before God, we are going to be amazed at all the things he found offensive in our world, things that we do not even recognize, just because we are so ingrained in this world and have become so ‘desensitized’.
 
At what point do we say “the amount of money they make off me is negligible enough that I shouldn’t worry about it”? The issue here is human lives.
 
CeaselessMedik said:
At what point do we say “the amount of money they make off me is negligible enough that I shouldn’t worry about it”? The issue here is human lives.
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If you wish to boycott then by all means do so. I used to get the LDI list and part of their advocacy was also writing to the companies specifically to inform them of the reason you would not purchase their goods or services. That does a lot more than just not buying things. LDI has had success - I believe Macy’s just came off their list.

But our cooperation if we do purchase from these companies is remote and not under pain of sin. Some give to causes on opposing sides to try and get some pull politically. 🤷 I can’t afford most of those companies anyway so my “boycott” by itself means nothing.
 
edwest2 said:
Youtube has a significant amount of material Catholics should not watch. I thank the OP for their post.

Youtube gets revenue from the number of views. It is a business, not just illegal downloads from bob6879 (not a real identifier).

247wallst.com/technology-3/2016/06/08/how-youtube-may-now-be-worth-90-billion-or-more-on-a-standalone-basis/

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But they don’t create their own content. Their business is in distribution. It’s true that they may not be particularly scrupulous about what gets distributed (unless it could bring a lawsuit), but as noted there’s lots of good people who use it, including for evangelization.
 
pensmama87 said:
But they don’t create their own content. Their business is in distribution. It’s true that they may not be particularly scrupulous about what gets distributed (unless it could bring a lawsuit), but as noted there’s lots of good people who use it, including for evangelization.
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They sell ads. Some videos are nothing more than (anti-Church teaching) issue advocacy. I’m just trying to make people aware of what youtube is. And yes, people do use it to evangelize.

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edwest2 said:
They sell ads. Some videos are nothing more than (anti-Church teaching) issue advocacy.** I’m just trying to make people aware of what youtube is.** And yes, people do use it to evangelize.

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I know what YouTube is. But I’m not clear that you do.

Why does it matter that they sell advertising space (in terms of morality, not annoyance)?
 
Because of what they so with their money - support planned parenthood. LDI monitors this stuff.
 
CeaselessMedik said:
Because of what they so with their money - support planned parenthood. LDI monitors this stuff.
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That is one thing that they do with their money, yes. But it’s not intrinsically immoral to run a business and turn a profit.

I guess what I find puzzling about this is that watching a video on YouTube is even more remote than buying directly from a company that donates money to PP or other immoral causes. In this case, you’re watching a video that may or may not have an ad that was purchased by someone else in the hopes that you might be motivated to buy said other product or service.

As I said before, if you personally don’t want to, that’s fine. The information that they are now on the list might be useful to others (though as I recall from when I got it, they requested that you not share the list publicly because there are counter-efforts from pro-PP activists.)

But I think the argument can be made that it could actually be morally good to watch YouTube if one selected videos created by, say, Word on Fire or other evangelists.

IMO it’s neutral. Our consumer relationships are neutral, unless we’re supporting certain companies specifically because they do immoral things.
 
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