I'm in! But how do I convince everyone else?

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? Check out our workshop curriculum designed to start your organizational move away from Big Tech. It's designed to run about 1.5 hours and helps get your colleagues on the same page before you begin.

Alternatively, for more general political education, 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.

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.

Other Organizing Efforts

Rise Against Big Tech is not the only movement working on this issue. Our efforts are largely focused on providing technologies consistent with our values, however other coalitions are more focused on lobbying, education, and consumer campaigns. See below for more options:

https://peoplevsbig.tech/ People vs Big Tech is a movement fighting to overturn the predatory business model of giant tech corporations and change the internet for good.

https://www.fightforthefuture.org/ We are a group of artists, engineers, activists, and technologists who have been behind the largest online protests in human history, channeling Internet outrage into political power to win public interest victories previously thought to be impossible. We fight for a future where technology is a force for liberation— not oppression.

https://notechforice.com/ If we want to free our future, we must Take Back Tech.

https://mediajustice.org/ MediaJustice builds power to challenge how corporations and governments use media and technology to shape our collective future. 

More Resources

The AWS Outage and What It Really Means for OUR Internet On October 20, 2025, something happened that we believe deserves more attention, not because it was novel or unexpected, but precisely because it wasn’t. What occurred that day affects most people and teams that rely on the internet for their daily operations, which means pretty much all of us.

How organizations can off ramp from Big Tech Many of us invested countless hours, months, and years learning how to use Twitter and Facebook to build followers, promote our organizations, and engage and mobilize new folks with our projects and campaigns. .. Fast forward a decade and Twitter, now renamed X and owned by Elon Musk, has gotten so bad that the Atlantic has officially declared it a “White Supremacist Site”.

The Deep Ties between Google and the Israeli Military In 2017, on the tenth anniversary of Google’s R&D center in Israel, Schmidt stated: “Israel succeeds because it doesn’t follow the rules.”

Pegasus spyware used on Journalist and Citizens The investigation has revealed shocking evidence of the illegal use of surveillance tools by the military to spy on its own people.

How Big Tech Undermines our Democracy Tech giants such as Google, Apple, and Microsoft are increasingly shaping the digital world we live in. Reijer Passchier cautions: 'Urgent measures are needed to curb this influence.'

Big tech is picking apart European democracy, but there is a solution: switch off its algorithms The latest actions of Musk and Zuckerberg are a sign of things to come, but the EU already has the power to give people back control.

Democracy Threatens Big Tech’s Business Model You’ve lost your privacy. You’ve lost the ability to share content and speech without gatekeepers. You’ve lost control over the public sphere. You’ve lost the freedom to choose which technology you use, and to choose what it shows you.