How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism
Last updated October 31, 2026
Cory Doctorow takes issue with the popular argument that technology companies control people through data-driven manipulation. In his view, that claim gives the firms too much credit. The deeper problem, he argues, is monopoly: a few companies have grown large enough to escape competition and regulation. He calls for breaking them up, enforcing antitrust law and protecting the right to build compatible products instead of accepting the companies' own story about their power.
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