"From street protests to mutual aid funds, from letter-writing to organizing sit-ins, from blockades to strikes, we need digital networks to prosecute our struggle." (p. 25)

#RegulatoryCapture
"Perfecting Big Tech is like installing a constitutional monarchy; rather than dethroning the autocratic leaders of our tech world, these 'fix tech' advocates demand that they suffer themselves to be draped in gold chains, held loosely in the hands of an aristocracy of regulators who are drawn from the senior ranks of the tech regulators themselves."

"We've tried making Big Tech into better tech for decades. That project has been an abject failure. To make tech better, we have to make it smaller . . ." (p. 55)

The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation by Cory Doctorow

#corydoctorow #BigTech #appropriation #CitizenEmpowerment