Cory Doctorow

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Author and digital rights activist

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Location: Canada

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Grant developers the right to interoperate with large platforms without permission

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Interoperability lowers switching costs. Interoperability allows us, the users of technology, to set the terms on which we use that technology. It allows us to use the parts of products and services that benefit us, and block the parts that don’t. Th... more Verified source (2023)

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Ban governments from using AI to conduct mass surveillance of citizens

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I, too, worry about technologies controlled by corporations that have grown so powerful that they defy regulation. I worry about how those technologies are used against us, and about how the corporations that make them are fusing with authoritarian s... more AI Verified source (2026)

added 25d ago
AGI could make governments subordinate to the companies that develop it

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I worry about how those technologies are used against us, and about how the corporations that make them are fusing with authoritarian states to create a totalitarian nightmare. AI Verified source (2026)

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