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[Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse (hackaday.com)

submitted 2 months ago by mesamunefire to c/technology

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[–] Benjaben 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Oof, well, point taken and sorry for your loss lol. I hear where you're coming from. And I'm sure we'd get a worst of both worlds situation here in the US where we spent a ton of time and money developing whatever standards and definitions, and then we make it an optional guideline like you're saying and it never goes anywhere.

Dunno. The fundamental problem is tech is always able to move faster and smarter than legislation.

[–] scarabic 2 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 children)

If I’m saying anything, it’s that legislation is the one thing tech can’t get around. Europe has put out a lot of legislation that tech hates, some good, some bad. But tech complies. The government contracts thing won’t hurt - it could possibly help legislation come about in one way: if government contracts force a handful of companies to do something, at least that shows the thing can be done. That’s kind of important because tech loves to complain that what this legislation calls for will be impossible!

[–] Benjaben 1 points 2 months ago (1 children)

I think we're on the same page :)

I'm mostly describing an idea where the contracts approach takes care of the necessary iteration to get a given tech policy sorted, and then legislation comes in to require it.

My country can't even get some basic stuff done, though, so realistically I may as well be writing fan-fic, lol

[–] scarabic 1 points 2 months ago

contracts approach takes care of the necessary iteration to get a given tech policy sorted

Yeah that could be of use.