Intervento di Cory Doctorow al 39-mo Chaos Communication Congress
https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the
global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that
prevented all of America's trading partners from disenshittifying
their internet: the US trade representative threatened the world
with tariffs unless they passed laws that criminalized
reverse-engineering and modding. By banning "adversarial
interoperability," America handcuffed the world's technologists,
banning them from creating the mods, hacks, alt clients, scrapers,
and other tools needed to liberate their neighbours from the
enshittificatory predations of the ketamine-addled zuckermuskian
tyrants of US Big Tech.
Well, when life gives you SARS, you make sarsaparilla. The Trump
tariffs are here, and it's time to pick the locks on the those
handcuffs and set the world's hackers loose on Big Tech. Happy
Liberation Day, everyone!
Enshittification wasn't an accident. It also wasn't inevitable.
This isn't the iron laws of economics at work, nor is it the great
forces of history.
Enshittification was a choice: named individuals, in living
memory, enacted policies that created the enshittogenic
environment. They created a world that encouraged tech companies
to merge to monopoly, transforming the internet into "five giant
websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four." They
let these monopolists rip us off and spy on us.
And they banned us from fighting back, claiming that anyone who
modified a technology without permission from its maker was a
pirate (or worse, a terrorist). They created a system of "felony
contempt of business-model," where it's literally a crime to
change how your own devices work. They declared war on the
general-purpose computer and demanded a computer that would do
what the manufacturer told it to do (even if the owner of the
computer didn't want that).
We are at a turning point in the decades-long war on
general-purpose computing. Geopolitics are up for grabs. The
future is ours to seize.
In my 24 years with EFF, I have seen many strange moments, but
never one quite like this. There's plenty of terrifying things
going on right now, but there's also a massive, amazing,
incredibly opportunity to seize the means of computation.
Let's take it. '