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It's pretty remarkable that we've forgotten about the kind of reverse-engineering that EUCD 6 bans. This used to be totally normal. Providing tools to move data from one system to another - without permission from your old vendor - is a completely legitimate business.
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The only reason we forgot that this stuff existed is that the US trade rep spent 25 years lobotomizing us all, threatening us with tariffs if we dared to do anything that disrupted American Big Tech. With those companies, it's always "disruption for thee, never for me."
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In a few short months, Trump has sown the seeds of the destruction of one of the most world's pernicious "America First" systems. Now, it's in the EU's power to send it to a long-overdue grave.
"Mr Cook, Mr Nadella, Mr Ellison, Mr Pichai - *tear down that wall!*"
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I'm on a tour with my new book *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #LosAngeles, #Calgary and #SanFrancisco!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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Armin Kübelbeck (modified)
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@pluralistic key insight for me was.."We need to make it legal for European technologists to reverse-engineer the American tech platforms' websites and apps so that Europeans can get their data out of America's tech silos and into open, sovereign, privacy-respecting, consumer rights-preserving, worker-protecting #Eurostack versions." Fascinating as ever, sorry never to meet you in #Budapest
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