This isn\'t a book for people who want to fix Big Tech.
The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet..
Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms.
Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.
In The Internet Con , Cory Doctorow explains how to Seize the Means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate.
We can--we must--dismantle the tech platforms.
The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it\'s a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.
They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on.
Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design.
The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction.
They said their walled gardens would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.
When the tech platforms promised a future of connection, they were lying.
It\'s a detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle it.
This isn\'t a book for people who want to fix Big Tech
