"We can reverse the enshittification of the internet. We can halt the creeping enshittification of every digital device.
We can build a better, enshittification-resistant digital nervous system, one that is fit to coordinate the mass movements we will need to fight fascism, end genocide, and save our planet and our species."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel
#TechActivism #enshittification #competition #TechRegulation #DigitalSelfHelp #WorkersRights
"In Seattle, Amazon's tech workers walked out in sympathy with Amazon's warehouse workers, because they're all workers.
The only reason the tech workers aren't monitored by AI that notifies their managers if they visit the toilet during working hours is their rapidly dwindling bargaining power. The way things are going, Amazon programmers are going to be pissing in bottles next to their workstations."
#CoryDoctorow, 2024
https://pluralistic.net/2024/01/30/go-nuts-meine-kerle/#ich-bin-ein-bratapfel
"I think we need to frame tech regulation and tech policy in terms of justice... risks and harms are really unequally distributed. You and me and - I'm assuming - many people in this room are not going to be the key targets of harm. It is always people in communities that are already marginalised or excluded. So where are the progressive political parties on these issues?"
#FrederikeKaltheuner, 2024
"We need to own our own data."
#HelenStarr, 2024
https://yewtu.be/watch?v=Nycso_OQes0&t=4730
Kind of, but no. Because that still implicitly accepts the framing of personal data as property. It's a digital extension of the propertarian notion that civil liberties are grounded in each person's ownership of their own body and mind.
Rather than abolish slavery, this just makes us all self-owning slaves.
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People are more likely to notice this when it comes to sex work. But we don't tend to notice that we sell ourselves into part-time slavery just as much when we flip burgers or driver an Uber. We don't notice that these jobs can be just as exploitive as sex work, or even more so.
Self-ownership is not enough. We need to go further and make a radical claim; that we are not for sale *or* for rent. That we are not property of any kind, and neither is data about us.
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