Cory Doctorow

The thing is that tech bosses want you to think that having normies accessible on the internet is somehow inseparable from them harming us.

That there's no way you could have friends without Mark Zuckerberg being in the conversation.

There's no way you can search the internet without Sundar Pinchai knowing what color underwear you're wearing.

There's no way you could have a phone that works unless you have a factory in China with a suicide net around it.

And I think that these are absolutely separable.

These are not things that go together naturally.

These are things that they have glued together.

And my goal is to build a new good internet where we take the parts that we like and we make them easy so that our friends can use them too.

And we get rid of the parasitic billionaires who sit in the middle and ruin everything.

Okay.

Yeah.

So...

Look, I think you're right that people can use technology in terrible ways, but I also think that, like,

There's a lot of reasons to be angry right now, and a lot of them have to do with the conduct that gave rise to tech monopolies and other kinds of monopolies, right?

But before, just because I limited time, I did want to talk about what is the solutions.

You know, you had some.

So there were four things that used to keep tech companies in check, and we can bring them back.

So one was that they had competitors.

We can do antitrust again.

It's not like it's trying to figure out how to build pyramids without power tools, right?