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I've just watched the first third of this (original source linked by squirrel) video.

tl;dw This is a great idea: Cory Doctorow explains how

1. all the countries the US trades with were forced, in their trade agreements with the US under threat of losing the US market, to pass their own digital copyright anti-circumvention laws so that US big tech companies can seek rent and collect the personal data of citizens of those countries with impunity, and

2. Now that trump has imposed all these tariffs on them and violated the agreements anyway, there is no longer any reason for them to to keep those laws on the books, laws which only hurt their own people and help US tech companies. He explains retaliatory tariffs only hurt their own people, that the best response is for other countries to stop protecting US oligarch and repeal those laws, which will help their own entrepreneurs and citizens, and withhold billions in rent to the US oligarchs.

And that's just the first third of the video, but I stopped to post this before watching the rest. edit update: yeah the whole video is worth watching.

Speaking of enshittification... why just post a youtube video with zero explanation of the content?

I watched the first 10-15 minutes of this and have to say, while I agree with him on principle, he's either misinformed or exaggerating the anti-circumvention regulation. There are a number of exemptions in anti-circumvention laws in the US for personal use. How far this goes was made clear in court, Apple took the creators of an iOS jailbreak to court and lost, making it clear that jailbreaking is not illegal, even though it clearly circumvents the "protection" system in place. Similar applies to circumventing DRM for backup copies of media, for instance.

Of course, I would rather see no anti-circumvention legislation whatsoever, but the way he misportrays the situation makes me question his credibility.

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So, that’s what I’m here to talk about today—the post-American internet we can wrestle away from Trump’s chaos. The kind of internet that’s possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to fight on our side. In politics, coalitions are everything. Anytime you see a group finally make a breakthrough after years of hitting walls, you can bet they’ve found new allies—people who don’t want all the same things but who share enough goals to fight together. And that’s exactly where Trump came from. He’s leading a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists…and, of course, self-described libertarians whose main political drive is a scorching case of low-tax brainworms—people who’d vote for Mussolini if he promised to shave five cents off their tax bill.

Loved that!

This is a fantastic watch! Hopefully Canada and other countries follow through and stop enforcing American anti circumvention laws

Thanks for posting this!

Will watch later, but what’s an anti-circumvention law?

Oh sweet. I've been hearing how great this talk was and looking for a place where I could watch a video of it. Thanks.

Glad that Youtube is hosted in Belgium, so we can still watch it in the post-American world.

Much more a manifesto than a plan. Unless I misunderstood what the plan is in a few steps?