Rebel Tech AllianceWhat is a better way?
"OK so Big Tech are toxic, surveillance capitalism is toxic. What's the alternative"Anti-trust law - Amnesty Internation weighs in
There have been efforts in the USA under the Biden administration to implement Anti-Trust (anti-monopoly) law against big tech. There was limited success but under Trump this doesn't look hopeful. The EU is also looking at this but the lobbying is so strong that who knows if there will be any success. A broader approach that factors in human rights is needed, and in August 2025 Amnesty International published a paper stating this:
https://www.amnesty.org/en/documents/POL30/0226/2025/en/
In the meantime, it's down to us - the people
"The revolution will not be monetised"
We can go from this:
💀 Closed box (proprietary) software under centralised control
💀 Creepy business model, surveillance capitalism, which incentivises businesses to build products that monetise your attention and destroy privacy
💀 Bully monopolies (with lack of innovation as competition is crushed) that are moving into building deathtech powered by AI
To this:
🥳 Spending time online, and communicating with each other, in non-commercial spaces
🥳 Each of us with smaller data footprints - this stops feeding their surveillance machine and protects you from hackers.
🥳 A cleaner information ecosystem - reduced mis- and disinformation since we're not 'fed' by billionaire algorithms
🥳 Healthy competition and innovation in the tech space, with products built to help people, not corporations
You do this by reducing your data footprint, and switching to ethical alternatives with these features:
✅ Privacy by design ✅ Open Source ✅ Decentralised ✅ Non-profit ✅ Encryption