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“As the power of the common person declined, the power of the Big Tech overclass multiplied: power over attention, over time, over users�� judgment, and soon power over their speech.”
― Josh Hawley

“We must free ordinary Americans from the constant surveillance and manipulation of the tech giants.”
― Josh Hawley

“You know something is profoundly wrong with our economy when Big Tech has a higher take rate than the mafia.”
― Ritchie Torres

“AI Con (The Sonnet)

Everybody is concerned about psychics conning people,
How 'bout the billionaires who con people using science!
Con artists come in all shapes and sizes,
Some use barnum statements, others artificial intelligence.
Most scientists speak up against only the little frauds,
But not the big frauds who support their livelihood.
Am I not afraid to be blacklisted by the big algorithms!
Is the sun afraid, its light will offend some puny hoods!
I come from the soil, I'll die struggling in the soil.
My needs are less, hence my integrity is dangerous.
I am here to show this infantile species how to grow up.
I can't be bothered by the fragility of a few spoiled brats.
Reason and fiction both are fundamental to build a civilization.
Neither is the problem, the problem is greed and self-absorption.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Corazon Calamidad: Obedient to None, Oppressive to None

“Humanitarian Industrialization

Fourth industrial revolution my eye! We haven't yet recovered from the disparities produced by the first, second and third industrial revolutions. Morons keep peddling cold and pompous dreams devoid of humanity, and morons keep consuming them like good little backboneless vermin. Grow a backbone already!

We always look at the glorious aspects of industrialization and overlook all those countless lives that are ruined by it. But it's okay! As long as we are not struck by a catastrophe ourselves, our sleep of moronity never breaks - so long as our comfort is unchallenged, and enhanced rather, it's okay if millions keep falling through the cracks.

So long as you can afford a smartphone that runs smooth like butter, it doesn't matter if it is produced by modern day slave labors who can't even afford the basic essentials of living. With all the revenue the tech companies earn by charging you a thousand dollar for a hundred dollar smartphone, they can't even pay decent wages to the people working their butt off to manufacture their assets - because apparently, it is more important for the people at the top to afford private jets and trips to space, than the factory workers to afford healthcare, housing and a couple of square meals a day.

And this you call industrialization - well done - you just figured out the secret to glory without being bothered by something so boring as basic humanity.

I say to you here and now, listen well - stop abusing revolutionary scientific discoveries in the making of a cold, mechanistic, disparity infested world - use science and technology to wipe out the disparities, not cause them. Break free from your modern savagery of inhuman industrialization, and focus your mind on humanitarian industrialization.”
― Abhijit Naskar, The Centurion Sermon: Mental Por El Mundo

“Any time someone puts a lock on something you own, against your wishes, and doesn't give you the key, they're not doing it for your benefit.”
― Cory Doctorow

“The human brain is an organ out of time. It stands as evolved and best suited for daily life in the Pleistocene yet here it is, having to make do in a modern, high-tech, wired, and fast-changing world.”
― Guy P. Harrison, Think Before You Like: Social Media's Effect on the Brain and the Tools You Need to Navigate Your Newsfeed

“As mentioned earlier, this action on the part of big tech is the very essence of fascism.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“The social media censorship, which constitutes an informal form of worldwide technocratic fascism, will not stand for long in this free country.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“I hear this drumbeat everyday as my own YouTube videos are deleted and as my YouTube channel is demonetized.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“Every day, I turn on the station, preparing to do my daily live stream interview, never knowing if this is the day that they have finally decided to pull the plug.”
― Charles Moscowitz, Toward Fascist America: 2021: The Year that Launched American Fascism

“Big Tech’s business model is based principally on data collection and advertising, which means devising ways to manipulate individuals to change their behavior—and then selling that opportunity at manipulation to big corporations. The result? An addiction economy designed to keep us online as much as possible, as long as possible, to sell us more and more stuff and collect more and more information.”
― Josh Hawley

“We all have to live in the world Big Tech has created around us.”
― Josh Hawley

“Big Tech was the culmination of the corporate liberal ideology and the globalized economy it envisioned. This was an economy that by the early twenty-first century depended less and less on
producing anything tangible, or on producers themselves, for that matter, but lavished ever greater rewards on the rarified, highly educated, largely urban technologist class.”
― Josh Hawley

“Big Tech had bought enormous influence in the hallowed precincts of Washington, D.C. Second, Big Tech was (and is) desperate to protect its special relationship, its sweetheart deals, with Big Government.”
― Josh Hawley

“Big Tech is desperately afraid of public criticism, of someone taking a public stand.”
― Josh Hawley

“When the tech behemoths claim, as they routinely do, that they couldn’t exist without Section 230, they are only slightly exaggerating. They couldn’t exist without the new and improved Section 230 that they rewrote with the help of the courts.”
― Josh Hawley

“Big Tech’s handouts from Big Government made the tech class what it is.”
― Josh Hawley

“Today’s Big Tech barons have benefited from lax antitrust enforcement and outdated antitrust laws, from cozy relationships with supposed regulators, and from special protections in the law. All this must end.”
― Josh Hawley

“Manipulative advertising based on personal characteristics is far from the passive distribution of third-party content Congress envisaged when it adopted Section 230 a quarter century ago. And
behavioral ads drive many of tech platforms�� worst pathologies—the surveillance, the addiction race, the data pilfering. But Section 230’s shield from liability is worth far more to Big Tech than even behavioral advertising. Section 230 is the giant government subsidy on which Big Tech feeds and has built its empire.”
― Josh Hawley

“The tyranny of Big Tech can be challenged.”
― Josh Hawley

“Purpose driven technology will continue to flourish, whereas profit driven technology will either perish or destroy the world.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mucize Insan: When The World is Family

“When expressing sympathy for the family of a deceased person is also categorised as hate speech, there is clearly something wrong with the arbitrary censorship by multimedia giants such as Facebook, It is therefore urgent that national legislation puts a stop to the silencing of right-wing and nationalist politicians. Because when you can be removed from Facebook simply for expressing sympathy for someone, this has nothing to do with ‘hate speech�� or ‘protecting democracy�� anymore, but everything with pure dictatorial arbitrariness.”
― Tom Van Grieken

“If we left everything to the morons of ass-x and buttbook, in a matter of months the world will turn into a cold, disparity-infested loonyland, run by the single-minded and asinine pursuit of dollar, algorithm and self-obsession.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Mücadele Muhabbet: Gospel of An Unarmed Soldier

“You know why there is so-much power outage in the world? Because the humans are unaware of their own electricity, both metaphorically and literally. And one who realizes their inner electricity and brings it out to electrify the whole world, is the true CEO of the world.

I don't care for being the CEO of some puny anti-humanitarian company, for I am already a CEO - I am the CEO of planet earth - I am the Chief Evolution Officer of the human world - so is every single human whose responsibility towards society outweighs their primeval drive for narcissism and self-preservation.

In every age, in every time, there'll come ten of us Chief Evolution Officers to make mincemeat of the megalomaniacal ploy of anti-humanitarian giants while driving human evolution in a humane direction.”
― Abhijit Naskar, High Voltage Habib: Gospel of Undoctrination

“Se è corretta la mia ipotesi che il capitale cloud sta prevalendo sul capitale terrestre, risucchiando sempre più rendita cloud dalla catena del valore globale, allora l'Europa è in grossi guai. Perché non è la Cina. Non ha una sola azienda Big Tech che possa competere con quelle della Silicon Valley e i suoi sistemi finanziari sono in tutto e per tutto dipendenti da Wall Street.”
― Yanis Varoufakis, Tecnofeudalesimo: Cosa ha ucciso il capitalismo

“The lower the switching costs are, the better a company has to treat you if they want to keep your business.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

“Today’s tech giants have not invented an interop-proof computer. They’ve invented laws that make interoperability illegal unless they give permission for it. A new, complex thicket of copyright, patent, trade secret, noncompete and other IP rights has conjured up a new offense we can think of as “felony contempt of business model”—the right of large firms to dictate how their customers, competitors and even their critics must use their products.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

“Any company more powerful than the government is a company the government won’t be able to hold to account—that’s the very definition of too big to jail.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

“The hard problems of reforming social media are the laws that block interoperability and the management of tech giants�� unwillingness to provide interoperability in the absence of these laws. Because Big Tech can lock people into its silos, it can impose high switching costs on users who have the temerity to leave those silos: they can make you surrender your apps, or your data, or your relationships, or your media, or your customer list.”
― Cory Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation