About the Digital Exodus

The Digital Exodus is a peaceful, strategic walkout from the Big 5 Tech platforms and monopolies that embedded themselves in our lives and have now forsaken us. What once felt like tools for connection have become the very infrastructure of addiction, manipulation, and social control. They've sold our data, eroded our privacy, amplified division and now stand complicit in a corporate-backed coup that threatens both the foundations of our democracy and the lives of billions around the world through climate denial and delay.

Why Tech? Why Now?
While the Peaceful Return still supports long-term goals like reversing Citizens United and reforming lobbying, we recognize that these actions will be nearly impossible without first getting a seat at the table of the power structure that is accelerating right now. What's at stake now is our ability to organize at all, and we need to act fast.

Corporations, especially Big Tech, wield massive influence over policy, media, and the economy. As many are realizing, what we’re witnessing isn’t just political chaos; it’s an ideological coup aligned with the goals of Project 2025 and backed by wealthy pro-monarchy technocrats. But this moment could not unfold at the scale it has without the tools and complicity of the Big 5 tech platforms, the infrastructure that tracks us, distracts us, and amplifies division. And it’s moving fast. Waiting four more years is not an option. We may not even have until September.

This isn’t about perfection. It’s about leverage. We must act with focused, collective power NOW and hold the line until we are given a voice. Even if you can leave 4 of the 5 platforms or reduce usage by 80% that's good enough. Don't let perfection be the enemy of the good. Every single action, every single person matters.

The Plan: Migrate off the Big 5 Platforms
Beginning April 22, 2025 (soft-launch begins April 19th)

• Amazon - Stop buying on Amazon; cancel Amazon Prime, any subscriptions related to is as well as Wash Post.
• Apple: Stop buying new Apple products, Cancel Apple Subscriptions (+TV, News, Music). Use Spotify instead of Apple Music for now.
• Meta: Deactivate or delete all Meta platforms (Facebook, Instagram, WhatsApp, Threads), or else drastically reduce use and delete FB/IG/Threads off your phone.
• Google - Migrate off Gmail (forward to another web-based email like Proton); switch from Chrome browser to DuckDuckGo or Firefox, use a non-google search engine like yahoo as much as possible; use MapQuest instead of Google Maps (even Apple Maps is better as they don't monetize your data and have much better privacy.)
• X - delete or deactivate
• Remember – Progress not perfection. Aim for a B- (80%). If you can only do 4 out of 5, or disconnect from 80% of most of the companies' apps, that is wonderful!

And then, we stay off—for 30 days, 60 days, 90 days, or however long it takes.

We don’t need to wait for permission. We don’t need to wait for politicians. The power is with us, the people. The Peaceful Return is not just about digital detox. It’s about reclaiming our agency.

April 22nd is our beginning.

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