Talin

@pluralistic I have recently been reading Fukuyama's "Political Order and Political Decay" (which I highly recommend, even though I disagree with some of his points), and one line in the book particularly struck me:

"Elites are often good at dressing up their narrow interests as universal truths."

It seems to me that this proposition is directly applicable to your argument about anti-circumvention laws.

Jan 10 at 8:35pmWeb
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@pluralistic I was paraphrasing your argument to a friend, a software engineer at Apple, about Canada repealing their flavor of the DMCA, and his response was "OK, but do you really think it's worth it?" In repealing such laws, he believed something valuable would be lost - innovation, quantity and quality of available media content, etc., etc. I immediately thought of Fukuyama - how the narrow interest of the tech companies had been morphed into a universal truth about consumer benefit.
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@talin @pluralistic Dumb Question: How old is your friend? Have they ever lived in a world without the DMCA?

FWIW, I've *never* bought into the self-serving bullsh*t justifying anti-circumvention.