By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Whether it's letting Bill Gates decide how your schools will work or letting Elon Musk decide how your public health system runs, the result is political chaos and a societal nudge away from the rule of law and towards guillotines. 60/ 120135
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026Which brings me back to Snowden. The Snowden revelations *did* spur a global conversation about digital surveillance, with the result that the majority of the world's digital traffic is encrypted today. That's not nothing. 61/ 11438
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/08/2026But the American state found new ways to conduct mass-scale, global surveillance, often by collaborating directly with tech giants. 62/ 11214
