LimeJuice5d ago
Ian Betteridge

The US government’s argument for "internet freedom" boils down to this: American tech platforms should be free to do what they want, anywhere in the world – as long as they do what King Donald commands.

https://www.ianbetteridge.com/the-freedom-stack/

The freedom stack

There is a sentence near the beginning of Arielle Roth’s remarks to the Media Institute’s Communications Forum luncheon, delivered in Washington on 25 February, that is worth sitting with before we do anything else with it. “Every major advancement in communications technology has shifted who holds power over

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Show threadHugo Mills5d ago
@ianbetteridge Pretty much the story of the last 100 years then (minus the constraint to only the big tech platforms).
Show threadHugo Mills5d ago
@ianbetteridge *side-eyes the East India Company*
Show threadIan Betteridge5d ago

@darkling Oddly enough...

https://www.ianbetteridge.com/doj-nvidia-and-why-we-restrict-monopolies/

DOJ, Nvidia, and why we restrict monopolies

A 1600, a group of English merchants were granted a royal charter, a legal document which allowed them to venture to foreign lands and seek trade. This was a big bet: not only were the territories they aimed to trade in a long way from England, dangerous to get to

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Show threadBruno Nicoletti5d ago
@ianbetteridge “The liberty framing is doing what liberty framings always do in Washington: making a commercial interest sound like a principle.” You put into words what I’ve struggled to express for a while.
Show threadTam T Tam5d ago
@ianbetteridge I woke my wife up and said honey Trump won the election and she scold me and said then why the hell did you wake me up for. I thought about it for a minute and said oh shit Trump won i need 2 jobs
Show threadChris Moorehead 🇨🇦🇺🇦🇬🇱5d ago
@ianbetteridge There is only one solution.