Ecologia DigitalDec 13, 2023
"That's what makes the jury verdict against #Google so exciting: the jury found that Google's insistence that #PlayStore sellers use its payment processor was an act of illegal tying. Today,#tying is an obscure legal theory, but few doctrines would be more useful in #disenshittifying the internet. A company is guilty of illegal tying when it forces you to use unrelated products or services as a condition of using the product you actually want"
https://pluralistic.net/2023/12/12/im-feeling-lucky/
Pluralistic: An Epic antitrust loss for Google (12 Dec 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Cory DoctorowMar 7, 2023

In "End to End," my new column for @Locusmag, I propose a policy framework for a better internet: the "#EndToEnd" principle (#E2E), a bedrock of the original design for the internet, updated for the modern, monopolized web, as a way of #disenshittifying it:

https://locusmag.com/2023/03/commentary-cory-doctorow-end-to-end/

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https://pluralistic.net/2023/03/07/disenshittification/#e2e

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Commentary: Cory Doctorow: End to End

Within the very first year of operation, 1878, Bell’s company learned a sharp lesson about combining teenage boys and telephone switch­boards. Putting teenage boys in charge of the phone system bro…

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