The Promise and Limits of Tailorability for Turkopticon

The increased accessibility of open-source software promises wider opportunity for people to build tools for their own purposes. We present an exploratory case study of rebuilding Turkopticon (TO), an activist tool that for digital workers, as a user-tailorable system. We reflect on the challenges we faced to offer lessons about the limitations of open source infrastructures and the importance community organizing. We situate our analysis of software and organizing practice in the political economy of the internet industries and forms of marginalization it engenders.