Kamala would have defended DMCA and Big Tech to the death. The only difference might have been a little less crypto grifting, but it’s nonsense to suggest there would have been a major difference on the issues this article is actually discussing.

A manifestation (or “manif” for short) is the word for a (political) protest in some languages

Ireland has entered the chat.

You can’t shop your way out of enshittification.

Mandatory licensing of video content to anyone who can pay for it (similar to what the music industry does) is the only thing that the might disrupt the streaming industry, like a sort of Paramount Decrees for the streaming age, since monopolies on originals is what keeps people locked in

Adversarial interoperability FTW

But it’s not copyrighted if it’s AI-generated, right? Or are there human co-writers and/or performers?

Ignore OP’s weird question, the book looks really cool

His recent monologues are decent too, like the ones on why AI is bullshit and why there are no ethical billionaires

The last 100+ pages of his book are about solutions

He just published a major new book entitled Enshittification

That’s not what being a Luddite means

Even if you’re paying for the product, you’re still the product

This is literally the one site whose journalism every Lemming should support

The schismogenesis in the comments and downvotes here is wild: “dystopia is good when it hurts scumbags”—um, no, both can be bad??

That’s literally the point of the article?

Maybe the paywall had something to do with it?

Can we please not help launder his reputation by proactively giving him credit for something he hasn’t done yet?

Wasn’t a major tranche of Softbank’s funding contingent on their being able to do this? They might be broke a lot sooner than people thought without it…

This sounds like the company from Cory Doctorow’s most recent novel, Picks & Shovels