Don't buy it? When tech firms get it wrong, that's not enough

With big tech business making regular political and ethical blunders, it is our responsibility to complain - and let them know they must do better

Whenever I write or talk about some company's terrible conduct, practices or terms of service, the first response I get, inevitably, is "don't buy their products, then".

In May, it was the way Applecontrols which apps we can download - which suppresses political speech. The company refused to put Liyla and the Shadows of War - a game about a child's life in Palestine - in its app store because, the company said, games couldn't have political overtones. The overwhelming response from the peanut gallery was that people who don't like Apple's policies shouldn't buy Apple's phones.