Cory Doctorow spoke at the 39C3 on 28 Dec ’25. There, he described a way to finally escape the US-controlled, enshittified internet — by means that D. J. Trump accidentally opened access to.

‘Virtually every government ministry, every major corporation, every small business, every household in the world have locked themselves into a US-based, cloud-based service.’

‘So this is the third bloc in the disenshittification army: not just digital rights hippies like me; not just entrepreneurs and economic development wonks rubbing their hands together at the thought of transforming American trillions into European billions; but also the national security hawks who are 100% justified in their extreme concern about their country’s reliance on American platforms that have been shown to be totally unreliable.’

A brilliant, encouraging speech, worth every one of its 61 minutes. Thank you @pluralistic

Via @_elena and @DataKnightmare⁠, thank you, too.

https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition

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