Utilities governed like empires

One bad account disconnection can cost you everything.

Cory Doctorow

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A looming, giant, old-fashioned robot with a glowing ‘good/evil’ meter set into its chest; a young girl, perched on the robot’s outstretched hand, gestures towards the dial.

Tech companies’ “mission statements” are easy to dismiss as BS, but they’re deadly serious and surprisingly successful in their aspirations to dominate the digital world.

That’s how we’ve ended up in a situation where a single company might control your email archives, family photos…

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