[Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse - eviltoast
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    1 month ago

    If I’m saying anything, it’s that legislation is the one thing tech can’t get around. Europe has put out a lot of legislation that tech hates, some good, some bad. But tech complies. The government contracts thing won’t hurt - it could possibly help legislation come about in one way: if government contracts force a handful of companies to do something, at least that shows the thing can be done. That’s kind of important because tech loves to complain that what this legislation calls for will be impossible!

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      1 month ago

      I think we’re on the same page :)

      I’m mostly describing an idea where the contracts approach takes care of the necessary iteration to get a given tech policy sorted, and then legislation comes in to require it.

      My country can’t even get some basic stuff done, though, so realistically I may as well be writing fan-fic, lol

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        1 month ago

        contracts approach takes care of the necessary iteration to get a given tech policy sorted

        Yeah that could be of use.