Intervento di Cory Doctorow al 39-mo Chaos Communication Congress
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global
system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of
America's trading partners from disenshittifying their internet: the US
trade representative threatened the world with tariffs unless they
passed laws that criminalized reverse-engineering and modding. By
banning "adversarial interoperability," America handcuffed the world's
technologists, banning them from creating the mods, hacks, alt clients,
scrapers, and other tools needed to liberate their neighbours from the
enshittificatory predations of the ketamine-addled zuckermuskian tyrants
of US Big Tech.
Well, when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla. The Trump tariffs
are here, and it's time to pick the locks on the those handcuffs and set
the world's hackers loose on Big Tech. Happy Liberation Day, everyone!
Enshittification wasn't an accident. It also wasn't inevitable. This
isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great forces of
history.
Enshittification was a choice: named individuals, in living memory,
enacted policies that created the enshittogenic environment. They
created a world that encouraged tech companies to merge to monopoly,
transforming the internet into "five giant websites, each filled with
screenshots of the other four." They let these monopolists rip us off
and spy on us.
And they banned us from fighting back, claiming that anyone who modified
a technology without permission from its maker was a pirate (or worse, a
terrorist). They created a system of "felony contempt of
business-model," where it's literally a crime to change how your own
devices work. They declared war on the general-purpose computer and
demanded a computer that would do what the manufacturer told it to do
(even if the owner of the computer didn't want that).
We are at a turning point in the decades-long war on general-purpose
computing. Geopolitics are up for grabs. The future is ours to seize.
In my 24 years with EFF, I have seen many strange moments, but never one
quite like this. There's plenty of terrifying things going on right now,
but there's also a massive, amazing, incredibly opportunity to seize the
means of computation.
Let's take it. '
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Dipartimento di Matematica - Università di Roma "Tor Vergata"
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