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democratisation in tech archive/dissertation

There's long been an ambition that the internet should be about democracy. This goes back to the beginning—to geeks swapping code, to open protocols that let users post whatever. But notice that when people in tech talk about "democratizing" some tool or service, they almost always mean just allowi…

—p.129 Tech Against Trump This Platform Kills Fascists (129) by Nathan Schneider
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tech workers are a powerful lever archive/dissertation

The problem is that we don't have many levers of control over big tech companies. The traditional stuff doesn't work. Usually, if a company is doing something a lot of people think is unethical, you can boycott them. You can't really boycott Google or Facebook. You're not their customer to begin wi…

—p.59 Solidarity Forever (55) by Maciej Ceglowski
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tech workers have a strategic position

The Tech Workers Coalition doesn't see tech workers as a special kind of worker. But we understand that we have a strategic position with regard to our place in production that we can leverage to stand in solidarity with other workers--not only with the service workers who work as security guards a…

—p.30 A World To Win (17) missing author