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Your technology is 

dominating you.
using you.
manipulating you.
seducing you.
spying on you.
snitching on you.
studying you.
experimenting on you.
distracting you.
wasting your time.
abusing you.
bullying you.
deceiving you.
not even yours.

Time to fight back.


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Modern technology is everywhere. Magical devices have flooded your home. Your smartphone never leaves your hand.

But have you considered how your tech might be steadily stripping you of power? That your favourite gadgets have been designed to secretly work directly against your best interests? That you are silently being studied and abused?

Take control of your technology before it's too late.

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[Big Tech] accumulates vast domains of new knowledge from us, but not for us.

Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)

[Big Tech] operates through unprecedented asymmetries in knowledge...

Shoshana Zuboff
The Age of Surveillance Capitalism (2019)

The truth is that no consumer or citizen can know what data is being collected about them... To say that anyone has consented to live in this world is a lie...

Bryon Tau
Means of Control (2024)

... the benefits and deficits of a new technology are not distributed equally... It is both puzzling and poignant that on many occasions the losers out of ignorance, have actually cheered the winners...

Neil Postman
Technopoly (1992)

Important corporate actors have unprecedented knowledge of the minutiae of our daily lives, while we know little to nothing about how they use this knowledge to influence the important decisions that we—and they—make.

Frank Pasquale
The Black Box Society (2015)

For every individual attempting to exercise self-control over computer use… there are a thousand experts on the other side of the screen whose job it is to break it down.

David T. Courtwright
The Age of Addiction (2019)

A smartphone in a personalized case seems like... a portable vending machine full of mood-brightening apps. But in this instance, as in so many others, the sheepskin of consumer autonomy conceals the wolf of emotional manipulation from a distance.

David T. Courtwright
The Age of Addiction (2019)

Any sense of control over tech deployed by predatory corporations or oppressive governments is a carefully crafted illusion... We're being herded into a digital cage.

Joe Allen
Dark Aeon (2023)

Algorithms analyse [our data] for patterns of established behavior... Once you go digging into the actual technical mechanisms by which predictability is calculated, you come to understand... predictablity is actually manipulation.

Edward Snowden
Permanent Record (2019)

You might think your privacy is safe because you are a nobody... If you weren't that important, businesses and governments wouldn't be going to so much trouble to spy on you.

Carissa Véliz
Privacy is Power (2020)

Everyone in tech wants you to pay attention to their app... even if that means luring you away from quality time with your loved ones or basic human needs such as sleep.

Carissa Véliz
Privacy is Power (2020)

STOP AND CONSIDER

CONSIDER YOUR VALUE

Your life is not a disposable data point. Stop using tech made by people who disagree.

CONSIDER YOUR ENEMIES

Many tech companies have dishonourable motivations. Big Tech is in no way your friend. Stop pretending.

CONSIDER YOUR POWER

You always have the ability to make a change. Take responsibility for your tech and make it your servant. Start today.


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