To keep with the spirit of the talk, watch it on the plattform provided by the event: https://media.ccc.de/v/39c3-a-post-american-enshittification-resistant-internet
So, that’s what I’m here to talk about today—the post-American internet we can wrestle away from Trump’s chaos. The kind of internet that’s possible because Trump has mobilized new coalition partners to fight on our side. In politics, coalitions are everything. Anytime you see a group finally make a breakthrough after years of hitting walls, you can bet they’ve found new allies—people who don’t want all the same things but who share enough goals to fight together. And that’s exactly where Trump came from. He’s leading a coalition of billionaires, white nationalists, Christian bigots, authoritarians, conspiratorialists, imperialists…and, of course, self-described libertarians whose main political drive is a scorching case of low-tax brainworms—people who’d vote for Mussolini if he promised to shave five cents off their tax bill.
Loved that!
This is a fantastic watch! Hopefully Canada and other countries follow through and stop enforcing American anti circumvention laws
Thanks for posting this!
Will watch later, but what’s an anti-circumvention law?
Its bullshit. You remember that BMW heated seat subscription they tried to sell? If you tried to sell a hack that unlocks that, BMW can sue you. BMW don’t own the car, they sold it, but anti-circumvention law dictates that you are not allowed to mess with BMWs “technological barriers” in order to use the car in a way not intended by BMW.
Not only can they sue, it’s also a felony:
…it’s a felony – a jailable felony – to modify that code or firmware. It’s also a felony to disclose information about how to bypass that access control…
that you need to use the product as intended by the company and circumventing the intended use case is illegal.
“You want to mod/fix the half-assed product we strong-armed you into purchasing from us, without our techs, with tools you didn’t buy from us, and without our permission? …ya know, it would be a real shame if we had to buy our {export important to your economy} somewhere else. No repairing or modifying without our approval.”
