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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

That's a laudable goal, but if we want to get there, we must start with *predistribution*: halting the companies' ongoing extraction efforts, by getting rid of the laws that prevent other technologists from unfucking their products and halting their cash- and data-ripoffs.

Do that long and hard enough and we stand a real chance of draining off so much of their power that we *can* get moving on those redistributive moves.

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Cory Doctorow
@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

And getting rid of anticircumvention laws only requires that governments control their *own* behavior - unlike taxing or fining companies, which only works if governments can control the behavior of companies that have proven, time and again, to be more powerful than any country in the world.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Libson!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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Pluralistic: Announcing the Enshittification tour (30 Sep 2025)

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ComputerNut43
@computernut43@nexto.my replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

@pluralistic damn i missed it.

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@pluralistic@mamot.fr replied  ·  activity timestamp 2 weeks ago

I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!

Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Libson!

Full schedule with dates and links at:

https://pluralistic.net/tour

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