With the Trump administration throwing tariffs around like paper towels, movements like Buy Canadian have sprung up in response. While it’s not that tricky to avoid American-made goods and brands like Coca-Cola and Starbucks in Singapore, it’s practically impossible to boycott US tech companies. Case in point: I’m posting this on Substack, a US-based media platform, from a Windows PC.
Social media is probably the easiest for me. Outside of work, I don’t use Facebook and Instagram from Mark Zuckerberg’s Meta, which recently canned its fact-checking programme. But Meta also owns WhatsApp, and that’s an essential app for most people here. I would also find it very tough to wean off Reddit, which is American, and where I do most of my doom-scrolling. In fact, I was somewhat inspired by this Reddit discussion.
I could probably do low-hanging fruit like unsubscribing from Amazon Prime. I don’t buy groceries from them, and…
