We Can't Afford to Have a T and T Breaked Up

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A t and t, for a long time, was a horrible bully that engaged in all kinds of really terrible conduct. And at every juncture where the government had the opportunity to either break up a t and t or try and make it behave itself, they went with the latter. I think we need to make the internet better irrespective of what's going on with the te companies. We shouldn't fix the internet by making the big tech companies copse. If we need cops for the internet, let the cops do it. Otherwise all you do is insure that the cops intervene to keep big tech from ever being broken up or tamed.

Paris Marx is joined by Cory Doctorow to discuss how the problems we associate with Big Tech aren’t the result of mind-control systems, but corporation consolidation. Cory argues we need to stop buying the overblown sales pitch, stop collecting so much data, and enforce antitrust legislation against the tech monopolies.

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His most recent non-fiction book, “How to Defeat Surveillance Capitalism,” is available for free at OneZero. You can also preorder his next fiction book, “Attack Surface,” on Kickstarter or anywhere else books are sold. Cory has a daily blog at Pluralistic.net and you can follow him on Twitter as @doctorow.

Tech Won't Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter.

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