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  1. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·

    They seem nice

    (Watch my @defcon talk at youtube.com/watch?v=rimtaSgGz_)

    (support @eff at supporters.eff.org/donate/j)

    #Apple #Defcon #TechnologicalSelfDetermination #Hatemail #enshittification

    #apple #defcon #technologicalselfdetermination #hatemail #enshittification
  2. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/7

    The point of #SoftwareFreedom was #TechnologicalSelfDetermination, the right of technology users to decide not just what their technology *does*, but who it does it *to* and who it does it *for*:

    locusmag.com/2022/01/cory-doct

    The open source split from free software was ostensibly driven by the need to reassure investors and businesspeople so they would join the movement.

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    #softwarefreedom #technologicalselfdetermination
  3. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/23

    When Apple says, "You can't install a third party app store on your phone," what they means is, "it's *illegal* to install that third party app store." It's not a *technical* countermeasure that stands between you and #TechnologicalSelfDetermination, it's a legal doctrine we can call "#FelonyContemptOfBusinessModel":

    locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doct

    But the mighty US government will not step in to protect a company's business model unless it at least *gestures* towards the technical.

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    #technologicalselfdetermination #felonycontemptofbusinessmodel
  4. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/52

    There's plenty else WEI can do (it would make detecting #AdFraud much easier), but for every legitimate use, there are a hundred ways this could be abused. It's a technology purpose-built to allow rent extraction by stripping us of our right to #TechnologicalSelfDetermination.

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    #adfraud #technologicalselfdetermination
  5. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/31

    The #RightOfExit and the #FreedomOfReach (the principle that anyone can talk to anyone who wants to talk to them) are both key to #TechnologicalSelfDetermination. They are both imperfect and incomplete, but together, they are stronger, and form a powerful check on both greed and cruelty-based predation:

    pluralistic.net/2022/12/19/bet

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    #rightofexit #freedomofreach #technologicalselfdetermination
  6. Cory Doctorow @[email protected] ·
    CW: Long thread/eof

    Finally, Europeans shouldn't have all the fun. If Apple can do this for Europeans, it can do it for every Apple device owner. If you bought an Ios device, it's *yours*, not Apple's, and you should have the right to #TechnologicalSelfDetermination that Europeans get when it comes to deciding which software it runs.

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    #technologicalselfdetermination