The article is spot-on but does not go far enough. The way to fight back is to decline to interact with, use, or especially pay for anything that actively work

The article is spot-on but does not go far enough. The way to fight back is to decline to interact with, use, or especially pay for anything that actively works against your freedom. In other words, stop hurting yourself! (and paying for the privilege of doing so) It's easy to spot many of them: they have "smart" in the name. Some of them even have euphemistic names like "Telephone" (which is supposed to be a passive instrument) when they are really deliberately-crippled computers.