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Church.

Just here to add Adobe to the list

Dow chemical; lack of progress be damned, not being poisoned en masse would be amazing for the human race. Honestly nestle would have been my first choice but you got me thinking.

Microsoft...

Embrace Extend and Extinguish is a masterpeace idea created by them.

Lots of Lobbyism and political people working for Microsoft managed to change an entire city to switch the OS even though everyone was for keeping it how it is. Additionally sending government emails to places to enforce the usage of Windows, while in reality, those were people working for Microsoft and abusing their Political email address.

They are so fucked up on the capitalism game. Also MSN is a huge lie because it only> exists for Propaganda... but its like every news page tbh...n

with the exception of some mom and pop cornershops, some state owned corporations and almost all worker-owned cooperatives, pretty much all of them can go. but i'd start with palantir.

Blackstone inc.

Private equity firm. Owns more than $1 trillion in residential properties. It also owns or manages around 250 property developers worldwide

Making it disappear basically solves the world wide unaffordable housing crisis.

ACAB: All Corporations Are Bastards

All of the biggest ones .... no corporation should be allowed to amass so much wealth that they could literally control entire countries or regions of the world. The fact that this level of power and control exists means we value money and capital over human life or even more terribly the value of millions of human lives.

Alphabet and Meta.

They have a stranglehold on the internet that should never have been allowed to develop in the first place.

But reading the other replies I guess my kneejerk reaction is a bit egocentric. Surely others are more important because they fuck up people's lives directly, not just via the internet.

Tyson.

Iirc, largest meat supplier. Which means they are a huge catalyst to the industry that literally profits on death and misery more than any other.

Their products are corpses, their human workers are in the industry with the highest rate of PTSD from their jobs, and by simply existing they’re helping create superviruses by fostering cramped sheds of half-dead animals that can barely move sleeping on their own shit and being kept alive just long enough to slaughter, using powerful antibiotics that will become useless a lot faster than if we used those antibiotics to protect humans instead of giving the perfect environment for viruses to adapt to and overcome them.

Fuck the whole animal agriculture industry, and extra fuck the biggest corps behind them.

Purdue Pharma and the entire Sackler family. I've witnessed so many horrible things done by Oxycontin-addicted people; knowing that history, I want to puke my guts out.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Opioid_epidemic_in_the_United_States#History

If I get a single shot it's Nestle for sure.

Multiple shots? bp, shell, exxon for obvious reasons.

I'm deleting Palantir, I think. I want Peter Thiel and his toxic ideology gone, and deleting Palantir's data and software would meaningfully set back the timeline of unlawful surveillance of the American public by our current administration.

Microsoft, Nestle, Alphabet, meta, all Elmo musk companies, Oracle, Rogers, Disney, all AI companies, all private equity companies, all gambling companies, all US health care insurrection companies

Not necessarily in order, just pick any

Blackrock.

Meta

News corp. They're the single most effective driver of fascist influence in the 21st century among the politically passive part of the population. Everything that all these other companies do is underpinned by News Corp outlets like Fox, The Sun, etc. justifying, equivocating, scapegoating and propagandising.

It's interesting that the "worst" corporations mentioned by others here do not include any media companies.

Perhaps you might contemplate why it is that they appear to be "invisible" in a discussion about damage to society.

Is it possible that the narrative around "evil companies" is told by media companies?

All of em ☭

Chiquita and Dole basically started American military backed wars in south and Central American to exploit the land to grow fruits.

I wanted to say Meta but reading things like Nestlé reminded me there are other companies that are equally as bad.

Now I wonder if Nestlé can be considered more evil than Meta because Meta influences the population on such a low level that it affects everyone.
Thanks to those fuckheads at Meta (not the devs trying to make a living) Any developed country went so far right it's almost unbelievable how fast it turned.

Nestle, Shell, BP, prager U, PayPal (interac please), Uline, Home Depot, Wal-Mart, that dollar store brand.

All of these have destroyed the environment, destroyed our democracy, or destroyed our small cities and towns.

I don't think removing a corporation from existence would fix anything. We have a capitalist system killing the planet that has been extended to basically every country on the planet thanks to U.S. hegemony (which thankfully is coming to an end)

Oil companies dude , shit ruined the environment so many times and never even aaid sorry nor attempt to clean up their mess

Yes.

Koch Inc https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koch,_Inc.

No one can touch them

All of them. Limit the size, ban acquisitions. Break up monopolies. They've never been good for everyone and just become exploitative.

See Dutch East India company, the worst of the lot who was a corporation that had their own military. Learn from history so mistakes are not repeated again.

Altruistically? Rosneft, the largest oil company in Russia. Help climate change and cripple Putin's war machine in one go.

For me? Central Square, purveyors of shitty enterprise software.

Black Rock,

So angry at Nestle and the time they killed all those African babies doesn't even hit your highlight reel. I agree- we can do without Nestle.

The Catholic Church.

Arasaka.