"FaceBook decides which news your see and which news you don't. If FB or InstaGram or WhatsApp kicks you off their platform, it can cost you your artistic career... Or contact with your distant family... Microsoft, AirBnB, Uber, LinkedIn, the largest tech firms structure our lives in myriad ways, without regard to our wellbeing, without fear of competition, and largely without regulation. For now."

#CoryDoctorow, 'The Internet Con', 2023

https://craphound.com/news/2023/08/01/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-audiobook-outtake/

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"These companies rule our digital world. The place where we find one another, form communities, and mobilize in solidarity to take collective action. Winning tech back isn't more important than preventing runaway climate change, or ending gender-based violence and discrimination. But it's hard to imagine how we'll do either, or anything else of significance, without digital infrastructure to hold us together."

#CoryDoctorow, 'The Internet Con', 2023

https://craphound.com/news/2023/08/01/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation-audiobook-outtake/