Cory Doctorow

Those tech workers, they're peeing in bottles or they're being injured at three times the national rate in an Amazon warehouse.

That's how tech bosses treat the workers they're not afraid of.

And the last thing we need to do is bring back interoperability.

We need to make it legal to change how the technology that you use works.

So that, for example, you can unlock your printer so it'll take generic ink.

You know that because it's illegal to change your printer, to modify your printer,

Four printer companies have raised the price of ink to the point where it is the most expensive fluid you can buy today without a license as a civilian.

At $10,000 a gallon, it would be cheaper to print your grocery list with the semen of a Kentucky Derby winning stallion, right?

So we need to just bring back interoperability too.

Well, it'll let you do what Mark Zuckerberg did to Rupert Murdoch.

You could have a way to be on, say, Blue Sky or Mastodon and have the post that your friends post on Facebook show up in your feed there.

So you don't have to choose between the place where they respect you and the people who matter to you.

You can have a foot in both camps.

But you can continue to interact with those people too, right?

In the same way that, like, if you don't like the way T-Mobile's treating you and you want to go to, I don't know, like another carrier, you do like seven seconds of administrivia and then your phone just starts ringing on it.

Nobody cares what network you're on.

No one ever called up a friend and said, dude, you would not believe whose SIM is in my phone today.

It is genuinely weird that it matters which network you're on and not who you want to talk to.

Yes.

You're the best.