Is Cancel Clankers anti-AI?

No. Cancel Clankers is anti-replacement, not anti-AI and not anti-technology. The brand exists to push back on the specific decision to replace human workers with humanoid machines — the decision, not the tools, not the engineers building them.

Does Cancel Clankers endorse violence against people in tech?

No. Cancel Clankers does not endorse, organize, fund, condone, or excuse violence against any person on account of their work in or near technology. Anyone using the brand or community channels as cover for that is not part of the movement and will be named publicly and removed.

Does Cancel Clankers endorse sabotage of infrastructure?

No. Cancel Clankers does not endorse sabotage of physical or digital infrastructure — data centers, networks, fiber, power, factories, supply lines, or the systems people depend on to be fed, heated, paid, and connected. The bill for broken infrastructure always lands on the neighborhood, never on the boardroom that made the decision.

How does Cancel Clankers resist?

Voice (saying what is happening, in plain words, every week), numbers (the Roster — staying countable), commerce (moving money toward humans and the things they make), showing up (hearings, local organizing, writing the elected by name), press (talking to journalists who will quote accurately), and each other (holding the line, correcting our own when they drift toward cruelty).

Principles.

Where we stand on tactics. We fight a decision, not a workforce. We do not endorse violence against the people who work in tech. We do not endorse sabotage of infrastructure. Plain English up top, the full position below.

The Line.

Cancel Clankers exists to push back on a specific decision: the choice to replace human workers, presence, dignity, and labor with humanoid machines. That decision is made in boardrooms, by investors, under policy that gives it cover. That is the enemy.

The enemy is not the engineer who pays a mortgage shipping code. Not the technician who keeps the lights on. Not the warehouse hand who loads the trucks. Not the kid who learned to weld a robot together because that was the job that paid this year. Those are our people. They will be standing in this same fight eventually, whether they know it yet or not.

We do not relitigate whether technology is good. We do not fight AI in general, big tech in general, or "the future." We fight a specific, named thing — the humanoid replacement of human workers — and the concrete decisions that drive it.

Nonviolence.

Cancel Clankers does not endorse, organize, fund, condone, or excuse violence against any human being on account of their work in or near technology. That includes — and is not limited to — engineers, researchers, executives, investors, founders, factory workers, technicians, vendors, contractors, their staff, and their families.

This is not a rhetorical position. It is a posture we will enforce. If someone uses the Cancel Clankers name, voice, marks, Roster, Cell, or community channels as cover or justification for violence against a person, they are not part of this movement. We will say so publicly, name the conduct, and remove them from any surface we control.

We are angry about what is being done to people. Anger is allowed. Anger is correct. Anger does not license violence against the human being on the other end of the keyboard, the badge, or the bank account. The decision is the target. The person making it has a name, an address, and a vote — none of which we ever publish, weaponize, or invite our community to weaponize.

Infrastructure.

Cancel Clankers does not endorse, organize, fund, condone, or excuse sabotage of physical or digital infrastructure. That includes data centers, networks, fiber, power, factories, supply lines, communications, transportation, and the systems people depend on to be fed, heated, paid, and connected.

The argument for breaking infrastructure has always ended the same way: the bill lands on the worker, the small business, the family in the apartment building, the small-town hospital — never on the boardroom that made the decision. The boardroom has redundancy. The neighborhood does not.

We hold this line for the same reason we hold the line against violence against people: because if we are serious about being pro-human, we have to act like it when it costs us something. Burning down a substation is not a strategy. It is a story the people we fight will tell about us forever, and they will be right to tell it.

How We Resist.

Voice. We say what is happening, in plain words, every week. We name the people making the call. We name the workers being replaced. We do not flinch and we do not soften it for comfort.

Numbers. We sign the Roster. We stay countable. There is no replacing the data of a human person who stood up and said, on the record, that they refuse to be erased.

Commerce. We move money toward humans and the things they make with their hands. We move it away from the firms making the replacement decision. Buying from a person is a political act now. We treat it like one.

Showing up. We attend the hearings. We organize locally. We pull in neighbors. We write the elected — by name, with the address — and we keep writing them. Local and state policy is where this gets decided. We show up there.

Press. We talk to journalists, podcasters, and anyone who will quote a sentence accurately. We make sure the headlines name the people the headlines normally leave out.

Each other. We hold this line with each other, hard. We correct our own when they drift toward cruelty or nihilism. We do not flatter cynics. We do not feed people who want this movement to be the thing they are scared it might become.

— Stay Human ★