This communique was written by the Comité Liquidant Ou Détournant Les Ordinateurs (C.L.O.D.O.) on February 7, 1983, just ten days after the group’s bombing of the data-processing centre of Colomiers. C.L.O.D.O. is a group that emerged within the realm of French cyberpunk and technological counterculture and was primarily active during the 1980s and the 1990s. Their communique, published in 01 Hebdo, articulated their opposition to centralized computer systems, which they viewed as tools of state control and social inequality. C.L.O.D.O. denounced the increasing reliance on technology, arguing it exacerbated social problems like unemployment and reinforced existing power structures. The group asserted their destructive actions were a necessary response to an oppressive technological society and a form of solidarity with the world’s oppressed.