I've never bought a product out of Russia and I've avoided products from other human rights violating countries for years as well. Countries that suck are kind of hard to boycott when you make a living in the tech industry though. The majority of my hardware was made in the west, but I do have an iPhone which was build in China.

Our boycott of America is more of a protest than an anti-American sentiment though. I mean, non-US citizens don't have a say in US politics, and rightfully so, but US policies do affect us. So how else would we protest Trump?

The reason for avoiding the American cloud, however, has less to do with protesting and more to do with privacy concerns. Especially now that Trump has spoken out against the Privacy Shield.

I don't think not going to the US is the same thing as boycotting goods from nations you have some ideological problem with. I think it is more about the uneasy feeling you get from visiting a country that makes you feel like you have no rights. (And indeed, at the border crossings you really do not have any rights to speak of).

As for boycotting goods from China: that's not really possible anymore, so it would be a futile exercise. But that's a different discussion.

It seems like the parent is responding to

>We won't buy American products under Trump

in the grandparent, not the bit about cancelling his vacation.