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“In my discussions with blockchain people, I’ve encountered a persistent pattern: first, they assume that if you disagree with them, it must be because you don’t understand them. If you manage to convince a blockchainist that you do understand them and that you still disagree with them, they assume you’re being paid to disagree with them.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

“People with good intentions feel left out within the neoliberal regime. Civil respectful worker being under or unpaid should be paid fair, artistic work appreciated being under or unpaid should be paid fair, working cultures should respect social values, need to listen to and learn from everyone.”
― Freek Lomme, Care Where No One Does: A Grassroots-style Guide to Progressive Cultural Production, Anticipating Neoliberal to National Conservative Times

“The hard problems of reforming social media are the laws that block interoperability and the management of tech giants’ unwillingness to provide interoperability in the absence of these laws. Because Big Tech can lock people into its silos, it can impose high switching costs on users who have the temerity to leave those silos: they can make you surrender your apps, or your data, or your relationships, or your media, or your customer list.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

“Today’s tech giants have not invented an interop-proof computer. They’ve invented laws that make interoperability illegal unless they give permission for it. A new, complex thicket of copyright, patent, trade secret, noncompete and other IP rights has conjured up a new offense we can think of as “felony contempt of business model”—the right of large firms to dictate how their customers, competitors and even their critics must use their products.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation