Ed Zitron

I just feel this in everything I do. I use technology all the time, and it is extremely annoying, but also I'm aware that I have privilege. And the more privilege you have within tech, the more you're able to escape the little things. Go and buy a cheap laptop today. Try and see what a $200, $300 laptop is. It's slow.

I just feel this in everything I do. I use technology all the time, and it is extremely annoying, but also I'm aware that I have privilege. And the more privilege you have within tech, the more you're able to escape the little things. Go and buy a cheap laptop today. Try and see what a $200, $300 laptop is. It's slow.

It's full of 18 pop-ups trying to sell you access to cloud storage, to shit that you'll never use, tricking grannies and people who can't afford laptops or people that just don't know. When I see this stuff, it enrages me. Not just for me, but because I know that I'm at least lucky enough to know how to get around this shit. Spent most of my life online. Spent most of my life playing with tech.

It's full of 18 pop-ups trying to sell you access to cloud storage, to shit that you'll never use, tricking grannies and people who can't afford laptops or people that just don't know. When I see this stuff, it enrages me. Not just for me, but because I know that I'm at least lucky enough to know how to get around this shit. Spent most of my life online. Spent most of my life playing with tech.

It's full of 18 pop-ups trying to sell you access to cloud storage, to shit that you'll never use, tricking grannies and people who can't afford laptops or people that just don't know. When I see this stuff, it enrages me. Not just for me, but because I know that I'm at least lucky enough to know how to get around this shit. Spent most of my life online. Spent most of my life playing with tech.

I know how it works. And I know I have my tangents and my biases. But I wear them kind of like my heart on my sleeve. I care about all this stuff in a way that might be a little different to some. And it's because I've watched an industry that... really made me as a person, that allowed me to grow as a person, to actually meet people, to not feel as alone.

I know how it works. And I know I have my tangents and my biases. But I wear them kind of like my heart on my sleeve. I care about all this stuff in a way that might be a little different to some. And it's because I've watched an industry that... really made me as a person, that allowed me to grow as a person, to actually meet people, to not feel as alone.

I know how it works. And I know I have my tangents and my biases. But I wear them kind of like my heart on my sleeve. I care about all this stuff in a way that might be a little different to some. And it's because I've watched an industry that... really made me as a person, that allowed me to grow as a person, to actually meet people, to not feel as alone.

And I imagine some of you feel like this too. And then watching what happens to it every day, watching the people who get so rich off of making it so much worse, and then seeing what happened on November 5th. And you can draw a line from it. People are scared, they're lost. Their lives are spent digitally, and your digital lives are just endless terrorism, endless harm.

And I imagine some of you feel like this too. And then watching what happens to it every day, watching the people who get so rich off of making it so much worse, and then seeing what happened on November 5th. And you can draw a line from it. People are scared, they're lost. Their lives are spent digitally, and your digital lives are just endless terrorism, endless harm.

And I imagine some of you feel like this too. And then watching what happens to it every day, watching the people who get so rich off of making it so much worse, and then seeing what happened on November 5th. And you can draw a line from it. People are scared, they're lost. Their lives are spent digitally, and your digital lives are just endless terrorism, endless harm.

Some of you know your way around tech so you can escape some of it, but it's impossible to escape all of it. Try meeting people these days. You can't. Everything is online, and everything online, everything on your phone is mitigated and interfered with. It's an assault on your senses, one deprived of dignity. And I see the people doing this. And it fills me full of fucking rage.

Some of you know your way around tech so you can escape some of it, but it's impossible to escape all of it. Try meeting people these days. You can't. Everything is online, and everything online, everything on your phone is mitigated and interfered with. It's an assault on your senses, one deprived of dignity. And I see the people doing this. And it fills me full of fucking rage.

Some of you know your way around tech so you can escape some of it, but it's impossible to escape all of it. Try meeting people these days. You can't. Everything is online, and everything online, everything on your phone is mitigated and interfered with. It's an assault on your senses, one deprived of dignity. And I see the people doing this. And it fills me full of fucking rage.

And it makes me angry for you and for me. For my son growing up in what will probably be a worse world. For my friends and loved ones who are harder to see, harder to speak to. Whose lives too are interfered with. And there are the millions and millions of people who have no fucking idea it's happening.

And it makes me angry for you and for me. For my son growing up in what will probably be a worse world. For my friends and loved ones who are harder to see, harder to speak to. Whose lives too are interfered with. And there are the millions and millions of people who have no fucking idea it's happening.

And it makes me angry for you and for me. For my son growing up in what will probably be a worse world. For my friends and loved ones who are harder to see, harder to speak to. Whose lives too are interfered with. And there are the millions and millions of people who have no fucking idea it's happening.

that just exist in this swill, in this active digital terrorism, poked and prodded and nagged and notified constantly. And early on in this, I got a message saying, don't tell people to be angry. And I stick by that. But I'm not going to hide that I am. I'm not going to hide the pain I feel. I'm not going to hide the pain I feel seeing this shit happen.

that just exist in this swill, in this active digital terrorism, poked and prodded and nagged and notified constantly. And early on in this, I got a message saying, don't tell people to be angry. And I stick by that. But I'm not going to hide that I am. I'm not going to hide the pain I feel. I'm not going to hide the pain I feel seeing this shit happen.

that just exist in this swill, in this active digital terrorism, poked and prodded and nagged and notified constantly. And early on in this, I got a message saying, don't tell people to be angry. And I stick by that. But I'm not going to hide that I am. I'm not going to hide the pain I feel. I'm not going to hide the pain I feel seeing this shit happen.