<story><title>Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech</title><url>https://www.noemamag.com/freeing-ourselves-from-the-clutches-of-big-tech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>nonrandomstring</author><text>Always an enjoyable read from Doctorow.&lt;p&gt;Noticed this that stood out;&lt;p&gt;&amp;gt; &amp;quot;emotional (or financial) strain of knowing ...&amp;quot;&lt;p&gt;As an astute observation about which few care to
&amp;quot;psychologise&amp;quot;. Namely, that beyond simple profit, the blind reason of
markets, and business just being business, there&amp;#x27;s a lot of plain
bloody-minded egotism out there in the corporate world.  There&amp;#x27;s folks
who will destroy value and opportunity, not because it&amp;#x27;s &amp;quot;competitive&amp;quot;
or &amp;quot;necessary&amp;quot;, but because it pleases them. And they throw their toys
out of the pram if anyone threatens their lunch or questions their
entitlement to have it.&lt;p&gt;We don&amp;#x27;t acknowledge or talk enough about the &amp;#x2F;emotional&amp;#x2F; landscape in
the tech world. That is a serious blind-spot when you have people like
Musk and Bezos in the mix.</text></comment>
<story><title>Cory Doctorow: Freeing Ourselves from the Clutches of Big Tech</title><url>https://www.noemamag.com/freeing-ourselves-from-the-clutches-of-big-tech/</url></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>adolph</author><text>I much prefer Sivers&amp;#x27; vision of tech independence[0] over Doctorow&amp;#x27;s vision of a law-regulation for every problem. They aren&amp;#x27;t necessarily incompatible with one another. Sivers is exit compared to Doctorow&amp;#x27;s voice (in the Exit, Voice, and Loyalty framework[1]). However, I think what Doctorow advocates is more likely to result in regulatory-capture than people-power. I think that capture is more likely to result in a world with higher costs in choosing forms of exit.&lt;p&gt;0. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sive.rs&amp;#x2F;ti&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;sive.rs&amp;#x2F;ti&lt;/a&gt;&lt;p&gt;1. &lt;a href=&quot;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty&quot; rel=&quot;nofollow noreferrer&quot;&gt;https:&amp;#x2F;&amp;#x2F;en.wikipedia.org&amp;#x2F;wiki&amp;#x2F;Exit,_Voice,_and_Loyalty&lt;/a&gt;</text></comment>