I am not struggling with anything, you are just not making any sense.
By your arguments Canada should neither put tariffs on the US nor really promote a boycott since in both cases, Canadians lose out. So why did you suggest Canada should respond with a boycott?
But if Canadians actually boycott a US product it doesn’t matter whether the price is increased or not since they will not be buying it anyways. It only makes a difference for the Canadians that will not boycott US goods.
Respectively passing up on a cheaper/better US good due to boycott will hurt the boycotter.
The only difference is if individual Canadians get a choice or not.
Are you talking about prices in the USA? I am asking why you prefer a boycott by Canadians instead of Canadian sanctions which would raise the prices in Canada. But if you are for a boycott the price as set by tariffs is irrelevant if it’s not bought anyways.
We also need to make sure that EU made equipment can be produced without non-EU components which is currently not the case for a lot of it.
Because those developers are not actually trying to get it to work in Linux, they are trying to get it to work in Windows.
Game developers that are licensing denuvo probably are trying to get their game with denuvo.
Linux intended software does not have the performance issues denuvo has.
Is your issue with tariffs vs voluntary boycott the removal of choice from the individual?
Politically an effort to be strong-armed must be answered in terms that the aggressor will perceive as strong. A call for a voluntary boycott will not cut it. It will also not be as effective at reducing reliance on US which Canada probably actually needs.
"Fuck you, got mine " exemplified .
Companies should not have rights, they are not people.
When they become big enough to have power over significant amounts of public discourse they should be regulated to protect public discourse from censorship.
Private entities can engage in censorship, that the US 1st amendment doesn’t offer protection against doesn’t change that.
The talking points might be, that supremacist US attitude is not. It’s been there for decades.
Its not the Russians or Trump there is big part of the US that is hostile to anybody but their, imagined, version of America and places no real value on others even allies.