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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026But because this debate is being framed in terms of *property rights*, rather than *labor rights*, this is a fight that workers are set up to lose. 27/ 1453