Anticircumvention laws, included in trade deals to protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes, stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump’s donor class.
The IP Laws That Stop Disenshittification.
Submitted 10 months ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/ip-anticircumvention-tech-trump-tariffs/
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 10 months ago
Whoaaa… that’s a lot of logical negatives in just 1 line.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 10 months ago
Stop non-antidisenshittification.
brandon@lemmy.ml 10 months ago
The enshittification of the English language.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 10 months ago
Antidisenshittificationism.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Retroantidisenshitificationalidizing!
bassomitron@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Agreed, it’s an awful headline
calabast@lemm.ee 10 months ago
You’re not wrong
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 10 months ago
You cant remove that double negative without making it incorrect. Its specifically about laws that prevent you from mitigating or bypassing enshittified parts of already enshittified platforms.
They also cause enshittification, but thats not what the article is about.
GamingChairModel@lemmy.world 10 months ago
Sure you can: The IP Laws That Reinforce Enshittification.
SaltSong@startrek.website 10 months ago
I’d go with “deshittification,” myself. It’s not important how or why they are shit, just that they are, and the laws in question prevent us from fixing it.