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Inside: There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech; and more!
Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/
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@pluralistic are there any good news?
"The world's governments have all signed up to "anticircumvention" laws that criminalize reverse-engineering & modifying US #tech products. This was done at the insistence of the #US Trade Rep... using the threat of #tariffs
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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"
- @pluralistic
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/redistribution-vs-predistribution/
Oh man, I love it when you do zinger illustrations. Have I ever mentioned you a graphic book? 🤪
💯 Agree. But pushing Carney to repeal anticircumvention laws will be a big challenge given the laws were essentially drafted by big tech, and exactly no one in government actually understands them.
@sleepy62 @pluralistic I misread this as "anti-circumcision laws" like 3 times
I'm on a tour with my new book, the international bestseller *Enshittification*!
Catch me next in #Miami, #Burbank and #Lisbon!
Full schedule with dates and links at:
https://pluralistic.net/tour
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There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115476211001123255
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Hey look at this
* The Forgotten History of Socialism and the Occult https://jacobin.com/2025/10/socialism-occult-mysticism-marxism-history/
* Study: AI Models Trained On Clickbait Slop Result In AI ‘Brain Rot,’ ‘Hostility’ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/study-ai-models-trained-on-clickbait-slop-result-in-ai-brain-rot-hostility/
* The Validation Machines https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/validation-ai-raffi-krikorian/684764/
* The Department of Defense Wants Less Proof its Software Works https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/department-defense-wants-less-proof-its-software-works
* Ireland: Adopt new, transparent process to appoint Data Protection Commissioner https://www.article19.org/resources/ireland-adopt-new-transparent-process-to-appoint-data-protection-commissioner/
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Hey look at this
* The Forgotten History of Socialism and the Occult https://jacobin.com/2025/10/socialism-occult-mysticism-marxism-history/
* Study: AI Models Trained On Clickbait Slop Result In AI ‘Brain Rot,’ ‘Hostility’ https://www.techdirt.com/2025/10/31/study-ai-models-trained-on-clickbait-slop-result-in-ai-brain-rot-hostility/
* The Validation Machines https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2025/10/validation-ai-raffi-krikorian/684764/
* The Department of Defense Wants Less Proof its Software Works https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2025/10/department-defense-wants-less-proof-its-software-works
* Ireland: Adopt new, transparent process to appoint Data Protection Commissioner https://www.article19.org/resources/ireland-adopt-new-transparent-process-to-appoint-data-protection-commissioner/
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There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet.
https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/115476211001123255
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