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 4 weeks ago by Tea@programming.dev to technology@lemmy.world
https://jacobin.com/2025/04/ip-anticircumvention-tech-trump-tariffs/
Zwuzelmaus@feddit.org 4 weeks ago
Whoaaa… that’s a lot of logical negatives in just 1 line.
Rentlar@lemmy.ca 4 weeks ago
Stop non-antidisenshittification.
brandon@lemmy.ml 4 weeks ago
The enshittification of the English language.
captain_aggravated@sh.itjust.works 4 weeks ago
Antidisenshittificationism.
werefreeatlast@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Retroantidisenshitificationalidizing!
bassomitron@lemmy.world 4 weeks ago
Agreed, it’s an awful headline
calabast@lemm.ee 4 weeks ago
You’re not wrong
unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.de 4 weeks 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 4 weeks ago
Sure you can: The IP Laws That Reinforce Enshittification.
SaltSong@startrek.website 4 weeks 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.