Against cars Ford o Teslavehicles VW, Renault the Skoda. Ante Google, Gmail, Microsoft o ChatGPT… Qwant, Proton Mail, Libre Office o Mistral. Instead of Instagram, Mastodon. And in fashion, Zara instead of Levi’s... the platform Buy European Made (Buy manufactured in Europe), also called Buyfromeu, disseminates online a list of alternative European brands to technological, cultural and industrial products of great consumption that arrive from the United States.
The initiative has a clear Boicot North -American Boicot: It advises European consuming as an option to products and services made in USA… but does not propose a single Asian brand to stop buying.
This platform broke on the Internet last Sunday, February 16and in two weeks he has gathered 72,000 followers. Nowhere in its website clarifies whether it is an antitropist reaction. “Stop to what is manufactured in the EU. Support European values”, He says in his main message, and he does not add more slogans or explanations, only a growing list of European varied alternative Netflix.
Activism
In that list, some participants provide brands they know, and others make Activism with memes, screenshots or videos in those who show their militancy in supermarkets. One of them locates this Sunday Ukrainian nuts next to peanuts from the United States In a shelf of a Eastern European store. The author makes the comb to the peanuts and is served as a product of Ukraine, although he gets a more expensive euro the kilo.
As an alternative to the large American network browsers proposes alternatives such as Cooperative Vivaldi, whose promoter, the computer engineer Jon Von Tetzchner, assures in his presentation: “We fight to make the Internet a better place. We fight to End the monopoly that technological giants have imposed On the web. We fight to end the incessant pollution of the web and civil discourse that only seeks to polarize to generate economic benefits. “
Antitrump boycott ads on the Buycanadian platform. / The newspaper
A series of details call the attention of Spanish experts in Propaganda and interference Foreign, accustomed to how Russian and Chinese campaigns take advantage of the dissensions to make lever in Western societies. The first, opacity. Buy European Made does not publish any person in charge, no management committee, or any public promoter. It only appears A Proton Mail email as a contact path. The email account is domiciled in Montenegro. In the section on questions and invitations to collaborate, the name of someone who says to be called Laura Catz and be of Romanian nationality is published.
Also in Great Britain
In these times of unprecedented tension between the European Union and the Donald Trump administrationanother platform has appeared claiming to buy national product instead of the American. His name is Buyuk, he goes to the United Kingdom public and has barely ten days of life, a space in which he has not yet reached the 400 followers.
In this other platform the antitrumpism is not hidden. In his chat, a follower expresses itself this Sunday: “Honestly, Trump can go to shit for threatening to violate the 1994 Budapest memorandum and bring Europe to a war with Russia. “
Both Buyfromeu and Buyuk reproduce the model of Another more veteran initiative, Buycanadian, which was founded in Canada on July 2, 2018 – a lot before this crrying climate in the West – and which has 235,000 followers. Although in its exposure of reasons it is declared as a space not dedicated to the anti -harvest boycot Put the rich oligarchs that support Trump against him “. And ask: “Just not buy American. Sit them in the only place that matters to them.”
To communicate to its users and followers and publish offers and novelties, none of the three boycott platforms renounces the use of the Reddit Content Addorcreated in the United States.
