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Crunchyroll Faces Cancelation: Why Anime Fans Are Choosing Piracy After Latest Update
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this post was submitted on 04 Oct 2025
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Bro why is everything from israel now bad??
Israeli companies have fuck all to do with the government's decisions
By definition of their country they're supporting their government, through taxes if nothing else.
I get that, but it's not like it's optional to pay taxes.
The point is more: Crunchyroll chooses to pay the sub company (Israeli based) to provide them with a service. The company pays taxes to the Israeli government. So the flow of money becomes:
Subscriber pays Crunchyroll
Crunchyroll pays sub company
Sub company pays taxes to Israeli government
If I don't want my dollars to go towards the Israeli government even in a small scale, I don't pay Crunchyroll.
As one person, it isn't much, but multiply that by a million subs and now you're sending a message
It's not like many of these businesses have much of a choice...
Israel is one of the most expensive places in the world to do business.
They have more than enough choice to move somewhere without the local hostilities and human rights abuses.
They choose not to because of religion.
Until their government stops murdering people, Israel needs to be pressured as a whole. Their citizens need to be fed up with it and put a stop to their government, and boycotting them helps.
I'm not 100% on board with @sulgoth@lemmy.world because it gives off some "but you participate in society, interesting" vibes. However, as an American I am all for people from the rest of the world boycotting our products (and this time not because of the health implications!). When Canadians were promoting non-american alternatives I agreed with them so I think we can say fuck companies and still stand with the actual individual people who want peace and everyone to prosper respectfully.
What a weird thing to say when we are watching a genocide live feed every day fucking think bro lol
israeli companies cant exist without the approval of the israeli government, so by extension they are supporting them through taxes, and propaganda(good pr). its the same with the CCP, although its more extreme, chinese companies cant exist with the explicit approval of PROC government. Unless its a israeli company thats based in the EU with no ties to Israel, than thats different. theres a reason why canadians dont want to go places even like california, they know its supports trump through taxes.
they are tied to israeli govt as the gov is tied to them, you want to open a business in israel, you would need to get approval from said state.