Collective Action

The rise of the Broligarchy and their integration into authoritarian politics in 2025 has meant that small numbers of people reducing their use of Big Tech products will not be enough. Gains made in 2024 in Anti-Trust law and other regulation are being walked back on both sides of the Atlantic. The only option is to TOTALLY QUIT big tech services EN MASSE.

We will also need to coordinate with other movements to resist the move towards dystopian authoritarian surveillance regimes. Tech has long since become political.

Authoritarianism cannot survive long-term if the masses take part in non-violent collective action. Research has shown that if just 3.5% of the population resist then dictatorships fail. And we have the numbers. We can apply that to both political change and resisting the broligarchy, so take action today, starting with the Big Tech Walkout 2025.

Events

The Big Tech Walkout 2025

We are working with the Digital Exodus movement to get a huge number of people free of big tech products by 31st December 2025.

Please share the hashtags #BigTechWalkout2025 and #DigitalExodus on social media everywhere!

Our friends at Imagine The News already started this process earlier this year and provide milestones and guides to help you meet the December 2025 deadline to be rid of big tech!

Read more about the Digital Exodus movement here

Let's count down on New Year's Eve towards freedom from the broligarchy in 2026!

In the meantime our friends at Media Revolution have organised Media Liberation Day on November 5th 2025 - see below. This is an important milestone as the broligarchy control so much of modern media.

Big Tech Walkout 2025 - follow the program:

1. Start easy with some basic tactics: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/stopusingbigtech.html
2. Get ad & tracker blockers for your browser: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/adblocker.html
3. Get a VPN: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/vpn.html
4. Stop using Google search: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/search.html
5. Get a better browser: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/browsers.html
6. Get an ethical messenger app: https://www.rebeltechalliance.org/messaging.html

Aim to have:

• 1 done by the end of September
• 2 & 3 done by the end of October
• 4 & 5 in November
• 6 during December

That's the easy way to be a team player. If you're feeling mighty then keep going through our Alternatives pages and get as much done by New Year's Eve as you can. Let us know how you're getting on at info@rebeltechalliance.org 🏆

Media Liberation Day - 5th November 2025

Our friends at Media Revolution are working towards Media Liberation Day on the 5th November 2025: freedom from billionaire control of media messaging. More info here: https://mediarevolution.org/media-liberation-day/. And you can follow them on Mastodon at @MediaRevolution@mo-me.social

Various non-profit work to resist big tech - show your support

Please sign up to Foxglove's newsletter here, and sign their petitions to resist data centres in the UK, and other big tech excesses. Their voice is heard by the UK government.

Please sign up to Big Brother Watch's newsletter here, and support their petitions and campaigns to resist the increasing surveillance in the UK.

Please sign up to Privacy International's newsletter here, and support their campaigns to e.g. reduce big tech's move into weapons building.

There are many more non-profit organisations working to make tech better - find them listed on our Unite page. Most run on donations so please donate to them.

Large-scale protests and strikes

Black Out The System are organising a mass shut down strike in the US, on September 16th to September 20th 2025. More details here. They will also have future actions you can support.

Indivisible are organising further No Kings protests on 18th October 2025 in the US. Find details here and join them. They also have smaller divisions in London and elsewhere in Europe. Given the merging of big tech and far-right politics, these protests are also important to weaken the broligarchy and surveillance capitalism.

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