A talk from the hacker conference 39C3 about a post-american enshittification-resistant internet. (in English)

  • baggachipz@sh.itjust.works
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    1 day ago

    This seems to be the crux of his argument in his latest book, enshittification. It takes a step beyond his common complaint (DMCA) and suggests other countries ignore their version of it to circumvent US Big Tech laws. I’m all for it, but it requires European governments to understand the situation and act. We’ll see.

    • Thymos@discuss.tchncs.de
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      13 hours ago

      It seems like they’ll do the exact opposite. The EU is preparing a change to the GDPR to exclude A.I. purposes and the commission has agreed to adopt American car safety standards (which are way lower) during the tariff negotiations.