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Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬
Benjamin Carr, Ph.D. 👨🏻‍💻🧬
@BenjaminHCCarr@hachyderm.io  ·  activity timestamp last week

Trump may be beginning of end for ‘ #enshittification’ – this is our chance to make #tech good again by #CoryDoctorow
There is only one reason world isn’t bursting with wildly profitable products and projects that disenshittify #US’s defective products: “anti-circumvention” law bans #reverseengineering that is the necessary prelude to modifying an existing product to make it work better for its users (at the expense of its manufacturer). But the Trump #tariffs change that.
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2026/jan/10/trump-beginning-of-end-enshittification-make-tech-good-again

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Trump may be the beginning of the end for ‘enshittification’ – this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow

The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow
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