'Unsubscribe' and 'opt out': A new Big Tech boycott to protest ICE
by zerosizedweasle on 2/1/2026, 10:01:10 AM
https://www.businessinsider.com/tech-ai-boycott-february-protest-ice-scott-galloway-2026-2
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by: defrost
Direct link to list of suggested sites to unsubscribe from (for a month) with hot links to unsubscribe nodes:<p><a href="https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/" rel="nofollow">https://www.resistandunsubscribe.com/</a><p><pre><code> 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 </code></pre> See Also: <a href="https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-boycott-campaign/" rel="nofollow">https://www.thenation.com/article/activism/ice-businesses-bo...</a><p>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).<p>Correction: I do have several gmail accounts used for various low key traffic.
2/1/2026, 11:05:10 AM
by: samizdis
Scott Galloway's relevant "No Mercy, No Malice" column "Resist and Unsubscribe": <a href="https://www.profgalloway.com/resist-and-unsubscribe/" rel="nofollow">https://www.profgalloway.com/resist-and-unsubscribe/</a>
2/1/2026, 11:18:10 AM
by: delichon
> 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.<p>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.<p>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.
2/1/2026, 11:11:57 AM
by: jeffrallen
Why not both? Local boycotts, global opt-outs.<p>And everything in between.<p>Until the people literally shut down the entire economy, the administration won't be stopped. Only money talks to the ghouls.<p>Stop everything: grocery store workers should walk off the job, and we should organize blockades on the distribution centers that feed Safeway and Walmart.<p>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.<p>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.<p>There are more of us than there are of them. Rise!
2/1/2026, 11:03:49 AM