I tend to agree with reading some of the details on this sort of thing, in order to determine one's personal stance. Most or all of us have to choose our spots and it's hard, or impossible, or improperly self-damaging, for us to boycott every single company every time we read something that upsets us.

In this case, I haven't delved much into the details, but since AT&T Wireless was mentioned as a leading contributor, that's the one thing I have focused on so far. Also, since Verizon was also bad, and I have had trouble with this particular area in the past (concern about the ethics of my cell phone providers), the initial impact of the report on me included taking action to give T-Mobile (or one of its users of bandwidth) another try.

I don't always follow the boycotts that others follow. Assessing corporate integrity, and their individual postures on issues that I am particularly concerned about, is something that I've spent time on here and there, but it's also something that I try not to be knee-jerk about, ... .something I try to be realistic about. We live in a world with many large corporations supplying our individual lives with many things. So, for my own purposes, I try not to make it an all-out boycott decision unless it's quite clearly, to me, something I have decided crosses my lines.

With all that said, I did post the PDF without posting the helpful accompanying summaries, so you may find one of those slightly more useful to wade through the information, such as here:

[citizen.org]

@kmaz So they've contributed to state legislature candidates, many of whom are GOP, presumptively voter for voter suppression laws. I can't afford AT&T mobile anyway, I use a discount carrier that costs me $28/mo after taxes. I can afford cable either I pay $39/mo for Comcast standalone broadband and stream everything. Still costs me $70/mo. I don't have the luxury of examining the politics of my carriers.

@barjoe

Sure, that all seems reasonable. For cell phone provider considerations, I have at times used discount carriers, and am now with one again, but even those carriers generally use the towers of the big 3, so it can be useful to identify which towers your carrier uses. If it turns out to be AT&T, that may not bother you enough to consider disrupting your cell phone situation. If it does, I"d give yourself a few weeks to research if there's a comparably priced and comparable quality cell phone waveband provider which uses T-Mobile waveband. Cell phone is tough because there are so many considerations. Is there a contract? For how long? What if things don't go well and you have to get out of it? Is it a massive amount of money to get a new or used phone for the new carrier? Is there risk of disruption to your contacts list? Is there a new annoying learning curve for a new type of phone? The whole thing is in the end much more difficult and expensive for some of us than may at first be implied by the popular "just switch" attitude.

Internet and/or TV can be tough too.

So, your general points that there are other considerations seem fine IMO. For me though, as to the level of importance of the issue to me, and as to AT&T showing up at the top here, and as to my past misgivings about AT&T, ..... their most recent showing up at the top of this list was an immediate firing offense, in this case, with me.

The other firing I had to do so far on this issue was that I had to put someone on ignore here in these forums. I tried several months ago to speak out strongly against voter suppression, and one of the forum members decided that I was one of the right wing folks focused on falsely claiming vote "fraud" (which was the opposite of where I was coming from). Nothing I said could get her to retract this ridiculous accusation, or even to think and understand the conversation properly, so, after years of trying to oppose the encroachments of the Republicans on our voting rights, I had to go through someone trying to mis-portray me as a right-wing propagator of the "vote-fraud" myth nonsense. So, oh well. But the memory of that whole experience is a motivator now for me to continue to initiate posts in opposition to these outrageous voter suppression efforts. I'm going to continue to do that whether some of the folks here like it or not.

@kmaz First of all, I can't afford a new phone, this carrier is about the cheapest and coverage is good. I did my part but I'm not going to jump through hoops. Life is too short.