Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
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Re: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
#2> What would be better is for the countries to break the monopolies of the US tech giants by making it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak, and modify American products and services. Let companies jailbreak Teslas and deliver all of the features that ship in the cars, but are disabled by software, for one price; that is a much better way to hurt Elon Musk, rather than by expressing outrage at his Nazi salutes, since he loves the attention. "Kick him in the dongle."
> Or, let a Canadian company set up an App Store that only charges 3% for payment processing, which will give any content producer an immediate 25% raise, so publishers will flock to it.
Re: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
#3Google refuses to translate this webpage to me, are there any chances it does it because Google refuses to ship the criticism of Google?
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#4Google refuses to translate this webpage to me, are there any chances it does it because Google refuses to ship the criticism of Google?
Google services might be banned from LWN due to excessive traffic from their AS:
Re: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
#5Google refuses to translate this webpage to me, are there any chances it does it because Google refuses to ship the criticism of Google?
works on my end https://lwn-net.translate.goog/SubscriberLink/1021871/4bec46...
Re: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
#6> What would be better is for the countries to break the monopolies of the US tech giants by making it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak, and modify American products and services. Let companies jailbreak Teslas and deliver all of the features that ship in the cars, but are disabled by software, for one price; that is a much better way to hurt Elon Musk, rather than by expressing outrage at his Nazi salutes, since…
> making it legal to reverse-engineer, jailbreak, and modify American products and services
It's amazing that merely learning about how items that we own work (so-called "reverse-engineering") and exercising control over them (jailbreaking - this time the term is apt) has been made illegal. A heinous overreach by corporations into the lives of people that own their products, and a ridiculous expansion of IP rights - as if patents weren't enough, they want to treat as trade secrets products with mass-market availability.
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#7Google refuses to translate this webpage to me, are there any chances it does it because Google refuses to ship the criticism of Google?
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Re: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
#8> In particular, the companies purchase financial information from a data broker before offering a nurse a shift; if the nurse is carrying a lot of credit-card debt, especially if some of that is delinquent, the amount offered is reduced. "Because, the more desperate you are, the less you'll accept to come into work and do that grunt work of caring for the sick, the elderly, and the dying."
I think this should be made illegal.
But I also think judging from how bad people are at making laws, what we will get is something that will make it worse for everyone.
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#9> "He believes that changes to the policy environment is what has led to enshittification, not changes in technology."
This is the root cause, and as it looks, there is no cure.
Re: Cory Doctorow on how we lost the internet
#10The link to the discussed talk is at the very bottom of the post: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ydVmzg_SJLw