Google’s YouTube has agreed to pay $24.5 million to settle a lawsuit by President Donald Trump over his 2021 account suspension following the Jan. 6, 2021 attack on the U.S. Capitol.
According to documents filed in federal court in California, $22 million of the settlement will be contributed to the Trust for the National Mall to help pay for the construction of the White House State Ballroom. The rest will go to other plaintiffs, including the American Conservative Union.
It’s called civil DISOBEDIENCE. NOT protesting. BE DISOBEDIENT. Just do it CIVILY. It’s always worked when ENOUGH people DISOBEY. NOT when they protest.
Protesting doesn’t do much but make Billionaires laugh at the fact they convinced you history is full of successful protests. It’s not. It’s full of successful civil Disobedience.
It’s just more dangerous than ever to do. But also worth it more than ever.
Protests behind police lines are just state sponsored venting sessions.
What does effective civil disobedience look like for the average worker?
Workplace resistance: Refusing to follow company policies that exploit workers or endanger others. For example, dock workers refuse working on ships carrying arms, warehouse workers slowing down production, or service workers collectively refusing to enforce discriminatory rules.
Withholding labor: Strikes are the most visible form, but even small coordinated actions like doing only what is contractually required, nothing extra, can be civil disobedience.
Supporting boycotts: Refusing to consume or sell products linked to oppression.
Community-based defiance: Helping neighbors resist evictions, sharing food outside of state regulated channels, or organizing mutual aid despite restrictions.
Symbolic defiance: Wearing or displaying political symbols at work or in public even when banned, as a way to disrupt the normalization of injustice.
Disrupt “business as usual". Don’t let them use your labor to exploit others and ruin your future for their profits. Land another job offer and threaten to resign if oppressive decisions aren’t reversed, and follow threw when they call your bluff.
Your labor is there lifeline, don’t forget that.
I think your point to boycotting makes sense every other point only applies if I work for one of those major companies, I dont, my company respects the labor they have and provides us great compensation and stability, definitely not the norm within my the sector. So sure I’ll be stopping using Google services as much but I can’t withhold their labor and anything I do at my workplace will have zero effect on those companies.