The once-common practice of reverse-engineering a rival platform to make an unofficial, interoperable bridge—say, a tool that scrapes your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other messages for a common inbox on a new, privacy-respecting service—have been effectively outlawed by anti-circumvention laws, patents, copyrights, and exotic contract theories like “tortious interference.”
Calling all copyright abolition aficionados! I saw so many of them back when their ideology would help a giant corporation, but this time it would actually help people.
Most anti copyright people I see (including me) hate those kinds of laws lol
I'm a digital ~anarchist. All this regulation doesn't help, it just makes the Internet more ridiculous, and raises the barriers to entry - fuck em. Rather than regulating some sane browser features, we left it to every site to implement a cookies popup, and they are unique enough that they aren't easily filtered. So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!! Really solved that shit. I don't trust these assholes, it's all gonna get lobbied weird and big money pretty much always wins
Real open source is the answer. Common goods for common people, not led by capitalism, but led by shared infrastructure needs that benefit all. Protect the rights to anonymity/privacy online, instead of helping big tech deanonymize everyone. Uphold the values of the constitution of the USA, but in the digital space. And otherwise fuck off, govt
So now every site has cringe popups that nobody reads or understands, thanks regulators!!
It's not the law that mandates the awful UI of those popups... it's Google. I'm an adwords publisher, on my blog and a couple of (formerly!) popular web-apps. My sites were all compliant with the legislation, but not with Google's policy for adwords publishers. Their algorithm sent me an e-mail threatening to cut off my income unless I implemented one of their "approved" cookie scripts. As any fool knows, it's simply not possible to contact a real human at Google, so I was forced to do as they wished. So now all my sites have pointless, annoying cookie popups.
Everyone hates those popups, but don't blame the legislation - blame Google for forcing the whole Internet into malicious compliance.
Uphold the values of the constitution of the USA, but in the digital space.
And fuck the rest of the world?
And otherwise fuck off, govt
Anarchist nonsense. Zero government = total chaos. The strong eats the weak. Like now, but worse.
Not sure if OP meant "zero-government" because that's not what anarchism as a political theory and movement is about.
This is why I don't like the Fediverse as much. Can you believe that loon got so many upvotes? Describes the average mentality around these parts, what a turn off.
I kinda don’t even think these conversations should happen until internet access is seen as a guaranteed right- through govt regulation or whatever. Otherwise, I feel like these takes are putting the cart before the horse - so to speak.
PS - I know I am replying to you but i my comments are geared towards OP
And fuck the rest of the world?
Where do you think every website in the entire world is hosted? It's America, obviously. We're the only country with a Constitution after all!
Since you are a “digital anarchist” I was wondering what your opinion was on the website “4chan.org”?
My opinion is that it's super legit, basically the only lasting icon of creativity and freedom of speech. Feels like what the whole internet used to be like, during the golden age before everything was captured by corps that fear brand damage and legal repercussions. People still repost 4chan content to all other media obsessively. Anyway 4chan is where it belongs, in the background. If it was more popular it would get totaled
Im not the anarchist but 4chan is dope. I don't spend as much time on there as here, but im glad it exists
Just update your age to be a minor you dunce
