In want Canada to drop the kind of funding the US is currently pouring into tech.

We won’t win as long as we keep sucking the teat of Microsoft or Google for all of our services.

We have no data sovereignty rights even in Canadian hosted data centres for them.

hold them accountable – thus helping ensure a higher standard of online discourse. The U.K.’s Online Safety Act protects minors from mature content, and

A strange thing to use as a positive example

Let’s make it happen! 🥊

I have been trying to do my part the only real centralized social media I use is Discord, because a community I am part of uses it. I have accounts on a few other social things but they just sit there dead.

I have gotten more into blocking ads, and not paying for things to not see the ads, because I do not want to pay even 0.01% of a penny to the Trump government. I use Unwatched to watch the youtube I wanna watch, because it can block ads. I used to pay apple for hide my email, the amount of spam I got was a few times a week, I cancelled that and gave myself a month to move all my hide my emails to a host in Canada. I can count the amount of spam I have gotten these past few months on one hand, and that is only because I have my old ISP email address forwarding to one of my email addresses I check.

I am an adult but I do not like accidentally coming across porn, so my pihole setup blocks most porn sites. I have a few dollars to my name so I can afford to be sucked into the never ending void of micro payments, it is not fun when it happens because it takes a little while to get out, I have sense turned off the ability for in app purchases to prevent myself from being sucked into the void again. I have cancelled all US streaming services and started using Radarr and Sonarr (with Prowlarr, Transmission, and Jellyfin). I have moved most of my online data onto Canadian servers and service providers, if Carney is not going to keep his elbows up when it comes to our digital sovereignty I will keep mine up!

Yeah, in that case, can we PLEASE stop using Microsoft and Google for EVERYTHING?

I am dreaming of switching the company away from Microsoft, use next cloud for storage, use any opensource product for all our requirements but we can't.

All health services and companies here use Microsoft and as Microsoft ensures incompatibility with everything not Microsoft, we can't move away from it

I HATE teams, it's useless shit, but everyone and their mother here uses it so how can we dump it? Hint: if we still want to have customers, we can't.

Seriously, make it a fucking government mandate to NOT use US tech companies, make it a mandate to use open source wherever possible.

I know it's a lot of work, and it will take a few years to complete, but it can be done, it's not that hard. What's missing is the will power to resist Microsoft marketing