A Manifesto Against Cell Service
We refuse to be leashed.
We reject the silent chain of cell towers and contracts, the expectation that we must be reachable at all hours, tracked by invisible networks, and billed for our own captivity.
Cell service is not a convenience. It is a bargain struck with our attention, privacy, and freedom. Every ping, buzz, and ring is a demand to surrender the moment you are in. Every tower handshake logs your location. Every byte of metadata is fed to corporations that treat your life as a product.
The world survived centuries without a signal. So will you. Emergencies can be handled with foresight: Wi-Fi calls, messaging apps, landlines, meeting times and places agreed upon in advance. The rare life-or-death moment is not worth the cost of being owned by a carrier every hour of every day.
To cut the cord is to reclaim your time. To decide when you are reachable, instead of being hunted by notifications. To break the illusion that you must be always on, always responding, always traceable.
We do not owe the world constant access to us. We do not owe corporations our data, our patterns, our movements. And we do not owe the price of our own surveillance, dressed up as a phone bill.
Turn off the towers. Cancel the plan. Find out what life feels like when the signal goes dead — and you can finally hear yourself think.