Big Tech destroys our society and the planet.

Let's resist together and combine our struggles!

We stand against AI and capitalism, for democratic governance and a good life for all.

Currently, digital technologies spearhead capitalist accumulation and destruction. In their current form, they represent a technological assault on our ecological, material and social foundations of life.

We have had enough of Big Tech! We are fighting back!

Big Tech corporations reinforce existing crises and injustices: They contribute significantly to environmental destruction and the climate crisis, they make labour and housing markets even more precarious, they isolate and alienate people that use their services, they exacerbate global inequalities, and they fuel fascism worldwide and facilitate systematic murder in wars and conflicts.

Big Tech leaves a long trail of destruction and exploitation in their wake: They waste energy and water, engage in neocolonial extractivism of rare earths and metals and dump their toxic electronic waste outside of imperial cores. To do so, they leverage deeply entrenched colonial infrastructural power. Big Tech supports the authoritarian isolation from and the hunting of those fleeing technologically amplified conflicts and environmental destitution. They drive automatisation that forces workers in the Majority World into ever more intense exploitation while devaluing and condensing labour in the Minority World.

Digital capital stands behind fascism and is its willing sidekick: Big Tech aims to become the indispensable force shaping the future and forcing upon humankind a dystopia disguised as a promise of prosperity. They disrupt weakened societal structures and wish for nothing more than an "artificial general intelligence", which they worship as omniscient and omnipotent. They strive for the transhumanist overcoming of humans in favour of a supposedly superior species. This is directly related to the eugenics of the nazis: The sorting of people into valuable and unworthy is historically and technically inherent in their technologies. Big Tech demonstrates its desire for total technological control through the development of artificial birth-giving machines, revealing that they want to appropriate and even replace the female body. The fight against feminism and queerness serves the New Right as glue for their often contradictory positions.

We organise and resist!

We want to connect with each other and stand together against the destruction. Our struggles are already coming together in many places: in local resistance against destructive mines and data centres, in workplace organising, at demonstrations and strikes against the arms race and murderous technologies, particularly in Gaza, in urban protests against gentrification and surveillance, in antifascist actions against the New Right, in resistant science and through political hacking.

We want to refuse, hack and shut down Big Tech: Let's find the vulnerabilities, join forces and stop the expansion of Big Tech. We fundamentally reject "artificial intelligence" in particular and consider resistance urgent and necessary in order to render destructive software and hardware harmless and to push back against the technocratic-authoritarian restructuring of our societies.

We want to break up, socialise and transform Big Tech: Let's expropriate and decentralise Big Tech as well as establish radically democratic control over digital infrastructures. We transform them into platforms and networks that redistribute from top to bottom instead of the other way around, facilitate global solidarity instead of making it impossible and protect ecosystems rather than destroy them. We must abolish some digital technologies if we are serious about a good life for all. They irreconcilably contradict what we want: radically democratic, socially and environmentally just societies.

We expect everyone to

Engage with care, sensitivity and accountability

Be mindful of power, privilege, impact, as well as our own internalized biases and ignorances

Ask for consent and respect boundaries and privacy of others in any interaction - verbal, physical, digital

Not assume gender based on someone’s visual appereance and/or presentation — instead ask for pronouns and respect them

Embrace pluralism and attempt collaboration before conflict

We don’t accept

Discrimination or exclusion, including but not limited to racism, islamophobia, antisemitism, classism, ableism, sexism, queerphobia, transphobia.

Harassment, intimidation, or violence of any kind

Misgendering and/or deadnaming someone

Non-consensual recording, photographing, or sharing of content

Awareness & Support

In case you feel overwhelmed or experience or witness harm, you are encouraged to reach out to the Awareness team. They are recognizable by the awareness vests. They can listen to you and, if needed, accompany you to a quiet space, help you feel grounded, and support you in figuring out next steps.

The awareness team also reserves the right to remove the person presenting unacceptable behavior from the conference. Nevertheless we encourage everyone participating to look after each other by checking in with people that seem in need of support or by talking to your friends in case you feel unwell yourself. If you would like to report an incident, please send an email to care@cableresist.de or fill out the feedback formula inside FAQ.

Scope

This Code of conduct applies to all participants, speakers, organizers, volunteers and press across all event spaces, communications, and online platforms officially hosted by Cables of Resistance.