By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026You have rights as a patient that far exceed the rights accruing to a mere customer. Same goes for other professions: Teachers have pupils, librarians have patrons, lawyers have clients. "Customer" is a demotion from all of these. 24/ 210537
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026As every "user agreement" you've ever clicked through demonstrates, Big Tech loves to have everything defined in property terms - and so does *all* big business. 25/ 1493
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Take the fight over scraping for AI. You might think that this is a fight over the economic rights of creative workers - certainly, my fellow creative workers treat it as such. 26/ 1292
