Un Internet post-americano e resistente all’enshittificazione

> 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.
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> 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!
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> 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).
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> 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.
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> 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.
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> Let’s take it. 

> the US trade representative threatened the world with tariffs unless they passed laws that criminalized reverse-engineering and modding.

That’s called IP laws and it goes both ways. It also protects European technologies and innovations. For example, without it the US can start selling Ozempic generics the moment it hit the market. Despite claiming to work for 24 years with the EFF, the author doesn’t seem to know this. This entire blogpost is built on buzz-words to impress the simple minded but lacks any proper understanding of regulatory environments and why it produced tech giants in the US while ours died.

For us Europeans, the problem is that we don’t have our own social networks, nor apps aimed at the general public—apps that could become *our* place on the web to spend time and actually use. Even today, we are still tied to American social media platforms; if tomorrow they were shut down for Europeans, we would all be left out, because even now there is no valid alternative that is also appealing to the average person. And that should be the goal—not niche things like Mastodon. We need to start creating social networks and messaging apps of our own, like in Asia, where not only China, but also Japan and South Korea have their own virtual spaces and do not rely solely on American platforms.

Your politicians as we speak are praising the redesigned trojan horse, this variant a sheep, to protect the kids.  Which is a surrender to silicon valley and tech, for your leaders getting a copy of the feed.

The US will get a copy too no matter what you are told.

I suspect the ones saying this are the same ones trying to take everything said or done or looked at and run it through ai threat detection and palantir type companies to make secret social scores to affect your jobs, loans, government and court and police treatment, down to prices charged and what info search engines will show you.

Say goodbye to the right to disagree, to protest.  First on Israel, climate change, developments, pollution.  Then everything.

But surrendering freedom is a small price to pay to not let china win!  /s

“adversarial interoperability”… Oh my god. I did not know this term existed. It is THE MOST (corporate) AMERICAN THING I have ever heard of. This is the stuff we legislate so it is forced to happen, because it benefits everyone. And these f***ers put a think-tank on their 0,3% profit margin dropping competitors and come up with “adversarial interoperability”. Buahaaaaaaa