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What to Boycott

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I’ve been thinking a lot about social media and how it and other services are subject to the Canadian boycott – and I realise that many other countries are doing the same – of American services and products.

Not that I have an answer, as the very service I’m using right now WordPress, is an American amenity.

So I’m posing a few questions which I hope you will be kind enough to answer. Have you dropped any American services such as AppleTV, Amazon, Wayfair or Netflix? Have you dropped any social media services such as X, Facebook, Pinterest or Instagram? If you have dropped some but not others, why?

I have dropped Amazon, Amazon Prime, Wayfair, Facebook and Instagram but have kept Netflix and of course, WordPress. My reasoning is that Netflix is a publicly traded company whose founder and chairman is clearly anti-Trump. WordPress, on the other hand, is non-profit, open-source project, which means that no one really owns it.

Nevertheless, while I am very conscious about shopping local and Canadian I really don’t want to stop Netflix and certainly not WordPress, although it frankly feels a bit uncomfortable.

What are your feelings?

64 thoughts on “What to Boycott”

  1. It’s an interesting question, Lynette, and a touchy subject. I can understand people boycotting companies when they feel strongly about something. It’s a great way to protest peacefully. However, it not only affects the company owners but the people who work for them, people who need their jobs in order to support families. I wish I knew the solution, and even more I wish that we weren’t in this awful situation in the first place.

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    1. Thank you very much for responding, Sue. Yes, very touchy. It’s not at all a straightforward issue since our cross-border business interactions are so entwined after decades of interaction. I know of people who are boycotting anything even remotely American, including American stores or restaurants operating here, but as you note, the corollary is that these businesses employ Canadians. It’s all such a shambles, the result of one man’s narcissism and greed.

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      1. I will gave to look into Mastadon. Then there will be the challenge of getting everyone I know to switch.
        Don’t you just live how united we Canadians are right now. I think this is what I will always want to remember about this current point in our history.

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        1. I agree. The premier of Alberta isn’t happy but I’m beginning to think that she should just pack her pack her bags and go to work for the DT. Otherwise, the unity we’re experiencing is fantastically wonderful. I hope Mastodon works for you. Cheers.

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  2. I have always been conscious of what I purchase and am happy to say that most of the furniture and decor in my house is Canadian. Most of my clothes, when I need clothes, come from Canadian companies. When it comes to food, I want to eat healthy, which is difficult this time of year in Nova Scotia, so I do the best I can when at the grocery store but I am not giving up my salads.

    I have FaceBook, which is wonderful for keeping up with friends and family. It provides a social aspect to our lives. I couldn’t really ask my husband to give that up. He needs it. And, of course, WordPress, which I sometimes think of getting rid of, but occasionally I need therapy and this is the cheapest therapy I know.

    Not being a big shopper to start with, very little of my money goes to the US. I do hope that when everything eventually calms down that people will continue to support Canadian companies and not jump ship to the cheaper imported items. Not sure that will happen though.

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    1. Thank you very much for responding. Long before all this happened, I was a big proponent of shopping local as much as possible although I wasn’t nearly as thoughtful about it as I am now. Given how integrated cross-border business has become, for us to suddenly pivot to anything-but-American is extremely difficult; at the very least it’s going to take time to reorganise.

      WordPress is open-source and is not owned by anyone although it was started by an American. I think it’s much more important not to support the companies owned by Trump supporters like Musk (X) and Zuckerberg (Facebook), although I realise that FB has become an important contact point for friends and families, especially if they’re spread out. Just so that you know, an alternative to FB that is gaining popularity (it apparently also works much better and more smoothly than FB as well) is the German-developed Mastdodon which is also open-source.

      I’m not a big shopper either although I had used Amazon. I think that the anger among Canadians will take a long time to defuse and of course regaining trust in the American government could take decades. In the meantime, I hope that we will have fully separated ourselves from American businesses and influence and that jumping ship becomes less of a temptation.

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  3. I haven’t dropped anything. I wasn’t on Amazon until last year. I only opened another Amazon account because of buying a book. I bought another since from another author. And I am on the lookout for when a sequel book will be out from where I bought the first book. These are authors that am supporting who I follow here on WordPress. If I wasn’t back on Amazon for those. I never would have been back using it.

    Facebook I dropped years ago. But I needed to get in touch with the waterboard. I can’t hear over their phone. Forgot they had an email because it is very rare I contact them. So hence Facebook and chatted via messenger. Which came in very handy because they were online and helped me there and then with the issue and didn’t log off until they knew I was ok. So I have it still for that.

    I don’t do any of the other stuff you mention because I don’t and won’t use anyway before all this.

    I think I read Etsy somewhere being on the list to boycott. I may or may not be wrong. But I support small businesses who sell via there when I buy sometimes from there.

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    1. Thanks so much for responding, Liz. I think that avoiding the businesses of those hugely wealthy Trump supporters (Bezos – Amazon; Zuckerberg – Facebook; Musk – X) is probably more important than trying to avoid everything American. Being selective is likely much more effective. WordPress is open source and therefore not really owned by anyone although it was started by an American.

      Here in Canada it has been extremely difficult to pivot away from all American products and services because business interests have become so interconnected over the last 35 years. It’s going to take time to disengage ourselves and find alternatives. It’s easier in the UK because your businesses are more diversified, but that’s not all of it either because so many American businesses have such a long reach.

      Before Trump’s re-election Canadians had long been advised to avoid Etsy because there is a lot of scamming and other irregularities on that site. UK residents would be subject to the same issues so you should probably carefully do your homework before purchasing from there.

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      1. Definitely is hard to avoid American products completely. I dod think of dropping Amazon. But if I dod, then I wouldn’t be able to support two authors on WordPress here.
        Etsy, I have only come across one bad seller and I was quickly refunded when I escalated it after the seller had disappeared off Etsy.

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        1. It’s certainly not very easy to deal with this situation, is it? There are such competing interests and yes, very difficult to avoid all American products and services. Glad you more or less escaped the shady seller on Etsy!

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  4. No Amazon shopping, no Amazon Prime. I am not on Facebook, Whatsap, Pinterest SnapChat TikTok or X, but those are always not on my list. Still on WP and Netflix. Disney+ is included in my cable plan with Rogers, but I feel Disney has been picked on by America politicians anyway. We have a free 3 months of Apple+ waiting and as long as it is free, I’ll take it but I won’t pay. We scrutinize all grocery and market purchases and stay away from Made in USA. We will not be travelling to America and that seems to be dangerous for woke Canadians anyway. No Wal-Mart or Costco. As to the Bay, they were owned by Americans when they went down. It is terrible what MAGA did to the world. Its more like MEHA. Make Everyone Hate Again. Happy Thursday Lynette. Allan

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    1. Thanks for responding, Allan. I agree. I looked into WP and Netflix and WP is open source platform although it was started by an American while Netflix is a publicly traded company whose present chairman originally started it and who is decidedly anti-Trump.
      In these cases I’m not much bothered by continuing to use them since they aren’t supporting Trump in his attacks on our economy and sovereignty. I think it’s probably more important to be selective rather than to take a blanket approach although I find myself torn about that, too.

      We haven’t ever used Walmart very much but we did have a Costco membership that we allowed to lapse a couple of years ago. One of the issues is that these stores employ Canadians but I also feel uncomfortable even seeing their logos in this country. Ugh. What a terrible mess.

      We won’t be travelling to the U.S. nor will we be buying American products either. Trump is a typical narcissist who loves to cause chaos and aggrievement wherever he goes. He basically hates himself and wants everyone else to feel the way he does. Such a horrible man.

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  5. Great question Lynette, we have questioned some of the things we’re doing here, if it’s Canadian enough, or if we really need it. WordPress is one that I’ve questioned, but there’s no plans to drop it. They don’t censor and connect us to like minded people. I was wondering about Booking.com because we use it a lot when we travel, but their head office is in Netherlands and we stay in locally run hotels, so not much money goes to the US.
    I dropped X when Musk took over a few years ago, I still have Facebook and Instagram but we’re questioning those.
    We don’t buy Apple products, or anything from Amazon. We have Prime, but don’t pay for it. I wanted Netflix again, but now we won’t add it. I’ll keep WhatsApp, it’s valuable when we travel.
    I am planning on buying a GPS watch. It would be American company but they do a lot of research in Airdrie, so I feel better about that. We don’t do a lot of other shopping but avoid Walmart, home depot etc.
    For groceries we try to buy non-American. We have Moroccan clementines and Patagonia pears right now. I’ll buy almost any country except the US for groceries. And of course, Australian wine instead of Californian.
    Good discussion. Maggie

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    1. Thank you very much, Maggie and thanks for sharing your thoughts. I like how you put that: “Canadian enough.” That’s what I keep wondering, as well. I looked into WP and it’s an open source platform that isn’t owned by anyone in particular although it was started by American Matt Mullenweg who owns other parts of it such as Jetpack, the mobile app. He isn’t a Trump supporter, however. Netflix is a publicly traded company whose present chairman also founded it and who is very anti-Trump.

      So maybe it’s about being selective and in particular avoiding as much as possible the people who support Trump and Trump’s position regarding our economy and sovereignty. As you point out you’re buying a GPS from an American company that also supports Canadian jobs. I have an older iPhone but won’t be buying another and we’ve been avoiding American businesses such as Home Depot. But again, I’m unsettled about it since these are Canadian jobs.

      I’m going to be very happy to see the interprovincial trade barriers come down as that’s going to offset much (but not all) of the pivoting we have to do. I’m becoming irritated at our government’s (and seemingly every politician out there) continued use of X as there are several good alternatives; there’s no need for us to keep supporting Musk. Thanks for joining in, Maggie. Cheers.

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      1. And one person commented on your post saying that local Americans are suffering because of our tactics, but they as a country voted him in. And the 1/3 who didn’t vote at all, also ended up helping him get elected. I have voted against a politician in the past, by voting for the lesser of two or three evils. They could have done the same. Maggie

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        1. Up until recently there hasn’t been much pushback against Trump either and even among anti-Trumpists, the idea of annexation is often still treated as a joke. I understand that there are those who are sincerely upset about this situation – if the shoe were on the other foot I would feel humiliated – but we have to take responsibility as a whole. Canadians are acting strategically by dropping voting intentions for the minority parties, so yes, thinking about how to vote is also important.

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  6. Like a lot of people we’ve been questioning what we buy and the services we use. At the grocery store we buy Canadian or products from countries other than the US. We still subscribe to a few American streaming services, WordPress (I don’t want to give it up) and X. I haven’t stepped foot into any American chains since this all started, yet they do employ Canadians, so they would feel the impact of reduced sales down the line. What a mess 😣

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    1. Thank you very much for adding your thoughts, Belinda. I couldn’t agree more – what a mess. Like you, I have found myself debating going into American-owned stores or using American services against the Canadian employment that’s involved. In thinking about this situation and reading the responses here, I’ve come to the conclusion that I have to be selective; avoiding Musk, Bezos and Zuckerberg owned services (X, Amazon, Facebook) and staying with services whose owners or controllers don’t support Trump’s ambitions to crater our economy or take our sovereignty. WordPress is open source and therefore not owned by anyone in particular and Netflix is a publicly traded company whose founder is now the chairman and who is also no friend of Trump’s, so I’ve stayed with those.

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  7. I have been thinking about this, as a European. I am not dropping WordPress, for sure, because I am accustomed, it is to me easy and fun. I do not have FB or X, I don’t care. I always shop in shops (I like it), very seldom my husband has shopped online.

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    1. Thanks very much for contributing to the discussion, Luisella. I’ve also decided not to drop WP. I did a bit of research which has relieved me to some extent and that’s that WP is an open source platform without a particular owner; basically it’s owned by the community. Its founder, Matt Mullenweg, owns associated parts, though, such as Jetpack, WP’s mobile app. Nevertheless, he’s not a Trump supporter and I think it’s important not to support businesses/owners who are Trumpists and therefore propping up his ambitions to crater our economy and take our sovereignty.

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  8. As a writer and photographer, Lynette, it’s actually very difficult for me and my colleagues to abandon Facebook, Instagram, and to some extent Pinterest. They are all platforms that spread the word about our work to a global audience. I have, of course, abandoned the dreadful X, where I had 25 k followers at the time. Unfortunately, the online world developed in the USA and their system of capitalism rules the entire globe, so is very difficult to go without in the modern world. I still have an author page on Amazon, but I no longer use them to buy books, which I now buy almost exclusively from a local book shop. And, of course, my WordPress site is my window to the world of readers, so I can’t abandon that!

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    1. Hi Stuart, yes, I understand that you are somewhat trapped and of course no one expected this level of vitriol from Trump. It has been nightmarish to deal with although we are beginning to get our feet under us despite the fact that we have a federal election in less than three weeks. Here in Canada it’s much more critical that we act in concert and in force against Trump’s attempts to crater our economy and try to take our sovereignty as well.

      One thing that I’ve found is that there are good alternatives to Facebook (Mastodon, an open source platform founded in Germany), Instagram (500px) and also X (Bluesky). Something to maybe consider at some point if it fits in. I feel okay about WP since it’s open source and although its founder, Matt Mullenweg, still owns parts of it such as WP’s mobile app Jetpack, he’s not a Trump supporter. Agreed that the US system rules right now, but I think it’s now time for the rest of us to start working against that kind of control. It feels a bit like 1984. Such a miserable mess all caused by the greed and narcissism of one man. Ugh.

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      1. I joined BlueSky last year, and already have 4.1k followers there, so that’s slowly building. I think I opened a Mastodon account some years ago, but that was probably at the very start. I’ll investigate and, if possible, run both it and FB side by side until people start to migrate there. I also have a 500px account from years ago. Again, it was very basic when I started, so I’ll take another look there, too.
        More than anything else, for those of us who use social media for exposure to possible readers, it’s gaining a following that takes time, and, coming up to 77 (May) I don’t know that I have that luxury!
        But I’m glad you made this post and drew these issues to the attention of your followers. (I’m sharing your posts to BlueSky when I can, so you may reach more people as well.) Thank you Lynette.

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        1. You have a good idea to run them side by side in order to encourage migration. Apparently Mastodon and 500px are better platforms but my comment is only based on what I’ve read, not from use.

          In your case, yes, your following is essential and it’s a difficult thing to pivot now. Happy early birthday, Stuart. 🎂 You’re welcome. It’s something that had been coming up for me a lot. Thank you very much for the shares; I appreciate that. Cheers.

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  9. Good question, Lynette. It is difficult to boycott all organizations that have human rights and environmental violations, or more recently, are supporters of trump and his cronies. I’ve been an active boycotter since my university days when I first learned about the Nestle baby formula scandal. Since then, I’ve boycotted most major food corporations, conventional meat, and companies like Monsanto and Tyson. More recently though, I’ve added those to the list that support the trump administration. It is challenging to avoid all of them though, and that’s where it starts to feel disingenuous. I think we just need to try as best as we can and keep searching for alternatives.

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    1. Thank you very much for adding your thoughts, Tricia. As an American, I know this isn’t easy for you and I appreciate that you’re contributing anyway. In thinking about it further and in reading everyone’s comments, I feel that the best we can do is to be selective. Agreed, stay away from Trump’s cronies and supporters and do our best – here – regarding American businesses; they are after all employing Canadians. Yes, it’s difficult to avoid all of them and the best we can do is to look for alternatives – I’m now looking at alternatives to Google and Gmail. It can get overwhelming and I’ve decided to make these changes a bit at a time.

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      1. It is very difficult. Especially when I know in my heart Kamala Harris would have been an excellent president. In the mean time prices are soaring, the unemployment rate is climbing, people here legally are being hand-cuffed and deported, and our retirement fund is plummeting. It’s absolutely horrific.

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        1. Here we had a very positive impression of her, Tricia. It’s so unfortunate she didn’t get in and my understanding is that she didn’t lose overall; is that the case?

          We – and many other countries, too – are appalled at what is happening. You’re apparently at the start of a brain drain too as Canadians and other nationalities leave because of Trump. Our retirement funds are dropping as well and of course the layoffs in the tariffed areas are huge along with our agricultural businesses that are also taking a major hit. No one will win here except DT and his oligarchs. But even that, I hope, will be temporary. Trump belongs in jail.

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          2. Wow. That was close. In my little opinion, people who don’t vote at all are as responsible for DT as those who actually voted for him. I’ve long felt that people should be required by law to show up, even if they check a box on the ballot that says something like “I choose not to make a choice” or similar. Compulsory voting exists in a number of countries including Australia.

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  10. I don’t use Amazon, Lynette, but have to admit I hadn’t thought about the boycott in social media terms. Facebook is manipulative and I suppose WordPress is too, but I would be reluctant to be without them. When it comes to food and goods I buy Portuguese. I don’t see the point in transporting things halfway round the world if it’s available locally. Good questions!

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    1. Thank you very much for joining the discussion, Jo. Facebook and Instagram are owned by Meta which in turn is owned by Trump supporter Mark Zuckerberg. Because Zuckerberg is bankrolling and propping up a man who wants to crater our economy and then annex us, I had to dump him and his online services.

      Just so that you know, Mastodon is an open platform company founded in Germany that is a good alternative to Facebook. It has a smoother interface and operates much better than Facebook, if you’re interested in taking a look.

      WP is also an open source platform that’s not owned by anyone, and although its founder, Matt Mullenweg, still owns parts of it such as WP’s mobile app, Jetpack, he’s no friend of Trump.

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  11. I don’t make any money from my blog, but I see you’re boycotting me, too. I thought we visited each other out of friendship. I’m disappointed I was wrong. I hold nothing against you for standing up for what you believe in. I wish you nothing but wonderful things in your life. I’m sorry you hold things against me for standing up for what I believe in and won’t visit me. Maybe someday I’ll understand why it’s okay for every country in the world to charge the U.S. astronomical tariffs for decades, but it’s not okay for the U.S. to charge those countries half the amount of tariffs. You can tell yourself that’s not happening, but that doesn’t mean it isn’t. It is. I live here and my life is effected by it.

    May you get whatever it is you want out of this and find happiness from it.

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  12. Lori, it comes down to what we each sincerely believe to be the truth about tariffs — what documentation and what analyses we trust. I don’t doubt your sincerity, I do dispute your analysis. And, for Canadians (and Greenlanders), quite apart from tariffs, there is the issue of sovereignty. Of course we are going to be insulted and angry when a neighbouring country repeatedly mocks our leaders, denies our right to exist, and states that it plans to annex us. Finally, it would be much easier for the rest of the world to reach new agreements with your country, If your leaders were to speak to us politely (one can be both polite and firm), and also stick to their decisions once made.

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  13. I still have those social media you’ve mentioned, but I’m not active there. I only use them for posting my work, nothing else. I love the fact that WordPress is not own by one person. Interesting! I will always be here on WordPress. I love it.

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  14. as a citizen of the USA, I got off Facebook years ago when they refused to let me leave politely. Amazon would like to take over the world; I don’t buy into them either. I drive an electric car, but it is not a Tesla! How Elon Musk can justify throwing his rockets and all of their pollution into the Gulf of Mexico, I don’t really know.(Certainly, it could be the gulf of America, if everyone agreed-but I don’t think the Mexicans were consulted! After all, Mexico, as well as Canada, are part of North America.)

    a question has a risen on this side of the border: we thoroughly understand why Canadians would not wish to travel south, but how do Canadians feel about those of us in the US traveling north? Do we need to put big signs on our car saying “Did not vote for him?” I have historically driven into Canada to visit friends, to take a shortcut, or to vacation several times a year over the past many years. Would I, and other friends who do the same kind of travel, still be welcome up there?

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    1. I hadn’t used Facebook for a long time and gave up Amazon recently. I agree that Amazon wants world domination with all its accompanying bits like Prime, for instance. I have no idea how Musk is getting away with the environmental damage he’s doing but it started long before Trump was re-elected and continues unabated.

      Americans are definitely still welcome here. Our argument is with your government, not individuals, and I believe most people see it that way. Visiting Americans should avoid the obvious: no Maga hats, flags or 51st state references and they definitely shouldn’t be driving a Tesla vehicle. They have been vandalised here. If you put up a sign saying you didn’t vote for DT, I think most Canadians would probably find that reassuring. Many Tesla owners here have put signs or stickers on their cars saying that they bought them before “Musk went crazy” and there are others indicating disdain for him and that has stopped people from damaging them, it seems. There’s a lot of sympathy here for Americans who didn’t vote for that narcissistic sociopath, as well. Most of us realise that if the shoe were on the other foot, we would feel humiliated and embarrassed beyond belief.

      That said, there are always going to be idiots and twits who think they should talk when it would be better for them to stay silent and not prove themselves as morons.

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  15. Thanks for the dialogue about what we are and can do. I am glad you researched WP, so I know the origin now. I’ve never been on X, and just before reading this, i had decided to delete FB and Insta until after the election over. I hadn’t used FB in quite some time but then joined a fitness group that checks in daily, and suddenly, I was on there way too much. And there is so much negative shit out there and misinformation.
    As to Amazon, nope. Netflix is on our server, but that is out of the EU, so it’s not directly a USA product in this way. As to big box stores we still shop at Costco with the rationale it employs a lot of people in our region and uses local producers like Sask eggs. But as with any grocery store we check where the food is grown or produced and make changes appropriately.

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    1. You are very welcome, Bernie. Thanks for joining the discussion. A lot of people are switching from Facebook to Mastodon, which is a German social platform that works much better than FB and of course removes support from Mark Zuckerberg, one of Trump’s oligarchs. Agreed, there is a lot of misinformation on the internet. It reeks of it.

      Netflix is actually not too bad since it’s a publicly traded company whose chairman is decidedly anti-Trump. I think the most important thing with all this is to be selective. We’ll never be able to stop all of it but we can do our best to support Canadian stores, services and jobs or failing that, those in other countries.

      I’ve found it difficult to come to some sort of conclusion around how far I need to go (or should go) to help our country transition away from American products and services but thinking about it and reading people’s responses here has helped.

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      1. Our actions are indeed a small rock in a big bucket, but if enough of us turn away from these companies and products, eventually, the bucket will be really heavy.

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  16. It’s rather to difficult to drop American products altogether. There are 2 truths here:
    1. Many products we consume in Canada are owned by American companies
    2. Boycotting American products isn’t going to help. Counter tariffs are going to make American products expensive anyway, so we will have to stop purchasing them. Moreover it’s one man’s insanity that has brought upon this economic crisis. Well, Americans did vote for him so… I’m confused.🥲

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    1. Thanks for joining the discussion, AB. Agreed that we can never stop all of it, but I do think it makes a difference as we’re spending many of our dollars on Canadian products and services (or those of other countries) which we have to do if we’re going to transition much of our trade away from the U.S. Of course, we are perforce starting small, but that’s the way of anything.

      As far as I can tell, Trump is a greedy narcissistic sociopath who is probably at the beck and call of Putin. The more we can disconnect ourselves from the utter catastrophe that is brewing to the south of us, the better.

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  18. Recently, I dropped my X (Twitter) account and started posting on Bluesky. because it’s more comfortable for micro-blogging, highly customizable and it’s opensource.
    On the other side X (Twitter) became filled with too much political stuff and negative news.
    yeah, I know that the news is actually negative. but it’s just that i don’t like it anymore.

    also I don’t use social media platforms for personal purposes.
    but I have seen it’s doing great for small businesses/owners.

    in short: i don’t like social media. especially Meta. because they see us like products.

    So, I’m currently focused on my own website rather than wasting time on other social media platforms.

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    1. Thank you very much for joining the discussion, AFLAH. It’s been instructive to read how people are thinking about this or dealing with this.

      I agree that X has become a pit of negativity and Bluesky is much better. I’m not on either; I stopped using Twitter (X) when Musk became its owner. I agree that the news is just so negative and yes, Meta treats people like products. I stopped Facebook as well as Instagram; Mark Zuckerberg is a Trump supporter.

      Agreed that social media can be a terrible time waster.

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  19. Hi Lynette, I have stopped buying from Amazon but have not gone off it as I like to get sample chapters from books and also my books are on Amazon, although they don’t sell very much. Yes, I still have Netflix and of course WordPress. I still am on Facebook. Have never been on Amazon Prime, Wayfair or Instagram.

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    1. Thanks for joining the discussion, Carol. I’m not on any social media platform any more except this one and I feel okay about both WP and Netflix since they’re not connected to or supportive of DT. I understand; it’s hard to pivot away from a platform like Amazon if you’re trying to market books. They have a pretty big corner.

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  21. I haven’t dropped any American services, but that’s largely because I don’t use many, besides WordPress and Facebook (and that’s only to buy stuff off Marketplace, mostly baby stuff). I’ve been trying to shop Canadian too and have no plans to visit the US anytime soon.

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    1. Thanks for joining in, Linda. It has been interesting reading about how various people are handling this situation. I’ve really been pushing the buy Canadian as well and I definitely won’t be travelling to the U.S. either. I am even dropping Google in favour of … a different browser, probably Mojeek although I’m not certain yet and need to do more digging.

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