The right to be analog is a critical enabler to the power to boycott.
Suppose you boycott Microsoft and Google. If you need to reach a gov office who uses MS or Google for email, then you are writing a snail mail letter. Denmark has eliminated the national postal service. The loss of an important analog option forces Danes to use the digital mechanism. No one in Denmark can say: “hold on, I am boycotting Microsoft, so I cannot be obligated to correspond with your office”.
No country gives its people either rights. That is, there is no country that gives you a right to boycott or the right be analog. In principle, we could loosely claim to derive those rights through the human rights to autonomy, dignity, and self-determination. But that won’t hold up in court, as human rights are generally disregarded in court. Abstract human rights like that are really a long-shot as well. Even if a court were to concede to human rights, you’ve already lost if you have to go to court because in Europe you cannot generally recover all damages even if the judge takes your side.
I believe a window of opportunity is passing us by. If we do not establish a right to be analog hard and fast, it will be too late once mechanisms supporting our analog refuge are gone.
Europe is quietly removing the cash option. Europeans are boiling frogs. They don’t see that they have already lost the option to be free from banks. Forced banking is already in force. This enables banks to gradually force you onto their enshitified digital platforms.
What I find most disturbing is how a vast majority are blind to this.
You can still boycott Microsoft and Google, you can use a Linux based OS and FOSS browser and email client software. The analog world is basically over.
No, that does not work. I can run all the FOSS I want, and I can register for email service wherever I like. But I cannot reach a Microsoft-hosted recipient without feeding Microsoft.
Exceptionally, if I have an analog option like snail-mail, then I can use that to reach the recipient without feeding Microsoft.
You can cut off your nose to spite your face as well and it will get you as far as trying to control what the other end of a service you need is running on. You only get to boycott with your dollar ( or whatever currency you use). Ludditeism only hurts you. Join the 21st century or just give up, but there aren't enough of you to make what you want to happen.
That’s 1970s boycotting. It’s not like that anymore.
Some people believe data is worth more than oil. It’s debatable whether that’s true, but I know for absolute certain that data is worth money. So if you are feeding data to a company that profits from it, you are certainly not boycotting that company (despite them not seeing a dime of direct money from you).
In the very least, if you are willing to send email to a MS email recipient, you are lying to yourself and others if you claim to be boycotting MS.
I don't have an argument against what you're saying, but I'm afraid you're gonna find you've chosen an impossible path. Good luck. Enjoy your chosen struggles.