By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026The answer to the problem of data brokers is *banning data brokers*, not creating a demented hairball of form-filling that maintains the fiction that data broker surveillance is consensual. 45/ 1224 22
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026This process reminds me of the whole "carbon credit" fiasco. The answer to too many carbon emissions is to democratically decide to ban certain kinds of carbon emissions. But that would require states to *do* things, rather than simply "nudging" a process that is guided by "the market." 46/ 1122 12
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 23/07/2026So we end up with these junk "credits" that companies manufacture by promising not to log forests, many of which are already wildlife preserves and/or subsequently burn down: pluralistic.net/2023/10/31/c... 47/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The impoverished imagination of neoliberal climate “solutions” (31 Oct 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 191 9
