Highlights
How do you convince your friends, family and co-workers to join you in leaving Big Tech? It depends on your audience. Below are just a few highlights in a variety of mediums. At the bottom of the page are a lot more resources you might find helpful.
Are your people readers? Cutting the Cord is both a booklet documenting the main obstacles activists and organizers face when leaving Google and an audio recording of a webinar featuring Climate Justice Alliance and Palestine Legal describing their progress in leaving Google behind. Actions for Environmental Justice traces the environmental impacts of Big Tech in contrast to the sustainable practices of autonomous technology providers.
Are you leading a discussion or workshop? The Movement Internet Timeline is a slide show documenting the history of the movement’s relationship to the Internet. It documents the nineties when the left built the Internet tools needed for building a movement, showing how our movement has a history of owning and controlling our Internet tools. [ADD WORKSHOP CURRICULUM]
If your people like podcasts... De-Googling our Lives and Movements is a podcast from The Roots of Change with Stone Cairns covering the big picture.
More Resources
How organizations can offramp from Big Tech is a blog post written by Progressive Technology Project that gives a political overview of some of the reasons to consider a move away from Big Tech and outlines some initial steps and strategies targeted at social justice organizations in the United States, but with wider applicability.
The Deep Ties between Google and the Israeli Military documents the close connection between Google and the Israeli military.
No Tech For Ice provides excellent resources documenting Big Tech’s collaboration with the worst elements of the US police and immigration systems.
[Add an example of Pegasus use on the global south ~f]
https://www.universiteitleiden.nl/en/news/2025/03/how-big-tech-undermines-our-democracy
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/jan/14/big-tech-picking-apart-europe-democracy-switch-off-algorithms
https://www.techpolicy.press/democracy-threatens-big-techs-business-model/