Fighting junk fees is “woke”

Visa and Mastercard want you to pay credit card swipe fees to own the libs.

Cory Doctorow

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A mechanical credit card imprinter (AKA ‘zipzap’) emblazoned with a US flag Punisher logo. It is imprinting a blank credit-card slip with a red Visa card bearing the GOP logo. It sits on a weathered wooden plank table, stained a dark brown.

I’m kickstarting the audiobook for “The Internet Con: How To Seize the Means of Computation,” a Big Tech disassembly manual to disenshittify the web and bring back the old, good internet. It’s a DRM-free book, which means Audible won’t carry it, so this crowdfunder is essential. Back now

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