Based on their personal experiences within the local communities that have rallied against proximity services that Google is attempting to install in many European suburbs, the authors analyze active resistance mechanisms and the role of documentation as a means of political action. This text invites an anthropological understanding of transmission and its current potential for networking technology. Following Habermas, the text highlights the paradox of writing’s technologization, in a positivism that drives us towards democracy’s paralysis. Anchored in experiences relating to common and resistance writing, this text recursively addresses its hypothesis, as an action-research, that is to say an emancipation of the written via an undoing and an appropriation of writing tool environments (technical, economic, legal), in order to counter their limitations.