A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet (39C3)

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• baggachipz@sh.itjust.works ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  This seems to be the crux of his argument in his latest book, enshittification. It takes a step beyond his common complaint (DMCA) and suggests other countries ignore their version of it to circumvent US Big Tech laws. I’m all for it, but it requires European governments to understand the situation and act. We’ll see.

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  • thymos@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    It seems like they’ll do the exact opposite. The EU is preparing a change to the GDPR to exclude A.I. purposes and the commission has agreed to adopt American car safety standards (which are way lower) during the tariff negotiations.

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    • Jayjader@jlai.lu ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      Then I guess it’s time to put “AI” (actually 3 if-statements in a trench coat) into all my software projects so they can legally jailbreak corporate software!

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  • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    That is one big but if I may.

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    • regedit@lemmy.zip ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I like big buts and I cannot lie!

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• Rentlar@lemmy.ca ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  As soon as I read his trademark word I knew it was Doctorow, awesome! I’ll give this a full listen sometime later.

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• Damage@feddit.it ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  If only our politicians had more than 3 neurons and could focus them on the common good instead of their own greed

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  • northernlights@lemmy.today ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Then they’d be serving meals at a soup kitchen instead of lying for a living.

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• SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  Loved the talk. Absolute must watch

  Cory even revoked my book’s return policy:

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  • Jumbie@lemmy.zip ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Why’d the author strike his own name?

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    • SkaveRat@discuss.tchncs.de ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I was wondering that myself when I saw it

      Seems like it’s a thing some authors do, often for various reasons

      writersdigest.com/…/authors-cross-name-signing-bo…

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• Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world ⁨3⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  To stop enshittification, we all need to chase away any attempt to capitalize on the internet and get back to the roots of preventing data scarcity.

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• TrumpetX@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

  I thought that I’d listen to 30 seconds and scroll, but I’m really glad I didn’t. Really solid argument, but it’s got a “last mile” problem, and that’s gotta be on us to figure out I think.

  The question at the end where he basically ignored and didn’t answer was “so how do we do this?”. THAT is the question. I’d love to hear that answer.

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  • ATS1312@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

    Step 1 - raise awareness. Step 2 - gather active participants Step 3 - collectively do legal things that make life harder for anyone with the power to enact this, yet does not. Step 4 - repeat Step 3, making it clear why this is happening. Step 5 - make memes of the affair to further drive engagement. Step 5.1 (potentially American/Russian/etc Exclusive) - get declared a terrorist for doing perfectly legal things Step 6 - keep going anyway, in spite of what consequences can be brought. Step 7 - profit build incremental victories to bolster the movement.

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    • TrumpetX@programming.dev ⁨2⁩ ⁨weeks⁩ ago

      I lol’d and cried 5.1 because it’s so spot on

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