Post B2EWBQt5WaivvxtEe0 by leighelse@mastodon.nz
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 (DIR) Post #B2EWBQt5WaivvxtEe0 by leighelse@mastodon.nz
       2026-01-12T18:44:14Z
       
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       Cory Doctorow summarises the reasons every country should remove tech copyright legislation in response to Trump tarriffs.https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/11/disenshittification-nation/#heated-rivalry'... if Canada repeals its anti-circumvention law, we can make billions of dollars, destroy the profits of America's most important technological allies, liberate ourselves from America's defective technology, and forge a durable, powerful anti-Trump alliance with American firms who are preyed upon just as surely as Canadians are.'
       
 (DIR) Post #B2EWBSR9lPZMjupxNw by leighelse@mastodon.nz
       2026-01-12T18:49:05Z
       
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       I have one personal misgiving about Cory's strategy.The moment any country removes anti-circumvention laws, it will immediately be accorded the International Criminal Court treatment. As with the ICC, Trump will instruct Microsoft, Amazon, Google et al to immediately turn off software and cloud services. Currently I can think of no countries except China and Russia which are positioned to survive this.In theory I agree completely with Cory Doctorow. In practice, until we have well-established alternatives to American Big Tech, we are hostage to tech copyright laws.
       
 (DIR) Post #B2EWBTVnlcsa4c1BGS by nobody@mastodon.acm.org
       2026-01-13T06:03:46Z
       
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       @leighelse Yes, but it's kind of the more reason to do it
       
 (DIR) Post #B2ElPYpUIAuVvqOtrk by leighelse@mastodon.nz
       2026-01-13T08:54:23Z
       
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       @nobody Aye.