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Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech - NOEMA

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Right to repair and other efforts to liberate technology from monopolistic corporations is a precondition for winning many vital societal battles. Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. His most recent fiction book is “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amid the climate emergency, and his most recent nonfiction book is “The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means Of Computation,” a Big Tech disassembly manual from which this essay is adapted. In 2020, 75% of Massachusetts voters voted in favor of an automotive right-to-repair ballot initiative, which would force auto manufacturers to share access to diagnostic information with car owners and independent mechanics, so any mechanic could fix your car. You wouldn’t be locked into taking it to the manufacturer. The people of Massachusetts were pretty adamant: They wanted to choose their own mechanics. They had voted even more forcefully for a very similar right-to-repair initiative in 2012.

Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech Right to repair and other efforts to liberate technology from monopolistic corporations is a precondition for winning many vital societal battles. Tala Schlossberg for Noema Magazine Credits Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. His most recent fiction book is “The Lost Cause,” a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amid the climate emergency, and his most recent nonfiction book is “The Internet Con: How To Seize The Means Of Computation,” a Big Tech disassembly manual from which this essay is adapted. In 2020, 75

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