Smash the Computers!

The group identified as IT workers who had been radicalised by the growth of computing and its role in facilitating violence at home and abroad from the Vietnam War to police surveillance and the drudgery of office work. CLODO distinguished themselves from loom-smashing Luddites concerned with technology taking human jobs, rejecting ‘primitivism’ and asserting ‘the computer is only a tool’. But they saw computers as ‘the preferred tool of the dominant…used to exploit, to file, to control, to repress.’ "

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