When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their …
If we someday triumph over labor exploitation, gender discrimination and violence, colonialism and racism, and snatch a habitable planet from the jaws of extractive capitalism, it will be thanks to technologically enabled organizing. 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. That is the other way that tech is exceptional. The fight for a free, fair and open digital future isn’t more important than any of those other fights, but it is foundational. Tech is the terrain on which our future fights will be fought. If we can’t seize the means of computation, we will lose the fight before it is even joined.
