Interoperabilty – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

Unspeakable

Big-Tech-as-cop vs. abolishing Big Tech

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Since late 2000, EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has made steady progress, and now, despite US Big Tech companies’ illegal lobbying, it has become a law.

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