No Facebook, no iPhone, no problem: how I declared my digital independence | Dan Gillmor
Dan Gillmor | The Guardian 2016-05-11
Summary:
Why pledge allegiance to the united tech giants of America – and the surveillance for which they stand? I am one man, relatively invisible, with liberty and justice online
More than a decade ago, over the July 4th holiday, I declared my personal Independence Day and attempted to sever ties with Microsoft, then a pervasive and abusive technology monopoly.
I failed.
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