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'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE

https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ai-boycott-february-protest-ice-scott-galloway-2026-2
41•zerosizedweasle•1h ago

Comments

jeffrallen•51m ago
Why not both? Local boycotts, global opt-outs.

And everything in between.

Until the people literally shut down the entire economy, the administration won't be stopped. Only money talks to the ghouls.

Stop everything: grocery store workers should walk off the job, and we should organize blockades on the distribution centers that feed Safeway and Walmart.

And blockade the ports: truck drivers should park on the railroad tracks, throw their keys in a ditch and walk off to join the protests.

Small business owners should lay off their employees, send them to get unemployment, and stand on the picket lines. A general strike must be completely unlimited, everyone must bear the cost so that the cost becomes unbearable to the powers that be.

There are more of us than there are of them. Rise!

goatlover•19m ago
Love the idea, but good luck getting enough Americans on board.
defrost•49m ago
Direct link to list of suggested sites to unsubscribe from (for a month) with hot links to unsubscribe nodes:

https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/

  These are the subscription-driven consumer tech companies we have identified as having outsized influence over the national economy and our president.

  Amazon:
    Unsubscribe from Amazon Prime
    Unsubscribe from Audible
    Unsubscribe from Amazon Music
    Unsubscribe from Prime Video
    Unsubscribe from Amazon Grocery
    Unsubscribe from Kindle Unlimited

  Apple:
    Unsubscribe from Apple Music
    Unsubscribe from Apple News+
    Unsubscribe from Apple TV
    Unsubscribe from Apple One
    Unsubscribe from Apple Fitness+
    Unsubscribe from Apple Arcade
    Avoid purchasing Apple hardware products

  Google:
    Unsubscribe from YouTube Premium
    Unsubscribe from YouTube Music
    Unsubscribe from YouTube TV
    Unsubscribe from Google One

  Microsoft:
    Unsubscribe from Microsoft Office 
    Unsubscribe from Xbox Game Pass
    Unsubscribe from LinkedIn Premium

  Paramount: 
    Unsubscribe from Paramount+

  Meta:
    Delete WhatsApp
    Delete Facebook

  Uber:
    Unsubscribe from Uber One


  Netflix
    Unsubscribe from Netflix

  OpenAI
    Unsubscribe from ChatGPT Plus/Team

  X
    Unsubscribe from X Premium

  These are the consumer-facing companies that we have identified as active enablers of ICE.

    AT&T
    ComCast
    Charter  
    Dell
    FedEX
    Home Depot and Lowe’s
    Marriott 
    Spotify
    UPS
See Also: https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-bo...

Perhaps because I'm Australian but it's seems notable that despite almost 50 years of near daily use of the internet I literally don't have any of the subscriptions listed here nor directly use any of these services (unless physical mail I post to the US ends up routed through FedEx or UPS).

Correction: I do have several gmail accounts used for various low key traffic.

delichon•43m ago
> A targeted boycott starting on Sunday and lasting the entire month of February could move markets, he says, which would, in turn, affect the CEOs who have the ear of President Donald Trump.

This is the issue that brought Trump to power. He jumped ahead of the other GOP primary candidates in 2015 by promoting just what ICE is doing now, and has led the whole party ever since. He is clearly very aware of that. The idea that he will toss that aside due to a bad month of business for some of his allies is dubious.

If this works it does so by budging independent voters, not Trump. The boycott succeeds if they see it as an important civil rights campaign, and fails if they see it as economic sabotage.

jeffrallen•2m ago
[delayed]
samizdis•36m ago
Scott Galloway's relevant "No Mercy, No Malice" column "Resist and Unsubscribe": https://www.profgalloway.com/resist-and-unsubscribe/

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