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Big Tech Won’t Let You Leave. Here's a Way Out - WIRED (archive.is)
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[–] LWD@lemm.ee 51 points 2 years ago (1 children)

The once-common practice of reverse-engineering a rival platform to make an unofficial, interoperable bridge—say, a tool that scrapes your Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, and other messages for a common inbox on a new, privacy-respecting service—have been effectively outlawed by anti-circumvention laws, patents, copyrights, and exotic contract theories like “tortious interference.”

Calling all copyright abolition aficionados! I saw so many of them back when their ideology would help a giant corporation, but this time it would actually help people.

[–] sapient_cogbag@infosec.pub 5 points 2 years ago

Most anti copyright people I see (including me) hate those kinds of laws lol