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C.Cory Doctorow's (<a href="https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@pluralistic</a>) blog post for today is a speech he gave last night at the University of Toronto, the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture at Innis College.It's worth reading:<a href="https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no" target="_blank">https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/</a>It connects the dots between anti-circumvention copyright laws like the USA's Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) (and the Canadian copycat legislation) and the enshittification that ensues when Big Tech does ... well, practically anything. There's a specific example he uses that is horrifying. He also shows exactly how Big Tech has escaped what he identifies as the usual four factors for keeping the worst instincts of companies in check.I agree with him that we should annul the anti-circumvention law on the books, and would go further in saying that we should explicitly enshrine in law the rights to alter, repair, remove etc. any functionality of products and services that we choose to use. I was one of the original 6,000 Canadians who submitted comments warning against the implementation of these restrictions to our government at the time, and my feelings in support of this are stronger than ever.Give it a read.Attached image: I think this is probably overdue.<a href="https://mindly.social/tags/CoryDoctorow" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#CoryDoctorow</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMCA</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/circumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#circumvention</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/AntiCircumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#AntiCircumvention</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DRM</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/enshittification" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#enshittification</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/e14n" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#e14n</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/speech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#speech</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/UniversityOfToronto" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#UniversityOfToronto</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/InnisCollege" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#InnisCollege</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/DigitalLock" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DigitalLock</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#RightToRepair</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/BigTech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#BigTech</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Google" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Google</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Facebook" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Facebook</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Amazon" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Amazon</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Microsoft" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Microsoft</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/Canada" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Canada</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/tech" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#tech</a> <a href="https://mindly.social/tags/software" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#software</a>

petersuber"The United States <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/Copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Copyright</a> Office is conducting the ninth triennial rulemaking proceeding under the Digital Millennium Copyright Act [<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DMCA</a>], concerning possible temporary exemptions to the DMCA's prohibition against <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/circumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#circumvention</a> of technological measures [<a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/TPM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#TPM</a>, <a href="https://fediscience.org/tags/DRM" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#DRM</a>] that control access to copyrighted works." <a href="https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/19/2023-22949/exemptions-to-permit-circumvention-of-access-controls-on-copyrighted-works" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2023/10/19/2023-22949/exemptions-to-permit-circumvention-of-access-controls-on-copyrighted-works</a>Different sorts of public comments are due on Dec 22, 2023, Feb 20, 2024, and Mar 19, 2024. Read the full doc for detail.

Nathan Freitas 🕺Learn how <a href="https://social.librem.one/@guardianproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@guardianproject</a> and <a href="https://mastodon.social/@torproject" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@torproject</a> are working together to bring Arti, the Rust-based next-gen Tor, to mobile devices <a href="https://guardianproject.info/2023/03/04/arti-next-gen-tor-on-mobile/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://guardianproject.info/2023/03/04/arti-next-gen-tor-on-mobile/</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/orbot" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#orbot</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/rust" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#rust</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/privacy" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#privacy</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/circumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#circumvention</a> <a href="https://ohai.social/tags/torproject" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#torproject</a>

CryptPadWe received some reports that CryptPad.fr, our flagship instance, is being blocked in <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/Iran" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#Iran</a>.In case of issues accessing our instance remember you can use another one, just pick it from our public instances list: <a href="https://cryptpad.org/instances/" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">https://cryptpad.org/instances/</a><a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/network" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#network</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/censorship" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#censorship</a> <a href="https://fosstodon.org/tags/circumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#circumvention</a>

Quincy<a href="https://mastodon.ar.al/@aral" class="u-url mention" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">@aral</a> I'm very upset about this hypocrisy, not least because the "<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/copyright" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#copyright</a>" system these companies rely on comes with *actual* unbalanced restrictions on free speech, (e.g. free speech about "<a href="https://chaos.social/tags/circumvention" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#circumvention</a> measures") - and wouldn't stand a chance when exposed to a truly free <a href="https://chaos.social/tags/martket" class="mention hashtag" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" target="_blank">#martket</a>.

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