By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026That means that Americans *cannot* rely on Big Tech to protect them from that authoritarianism. And yet, after decades of regulatory forbearance and lax antitrust enforcement, Big Tech has forced nearly all its rivals out of business. 10/ 1253
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026Who can compete with companies that use Irish domicile to evade taxation and US domicile to evade privacy law? There's a joke from eastern Canada I think of often in situations like this. Its punchline goes, "If you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here." 11/ 2273
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 04/08/2026But here we are. And speaking of Canada, while it has many problems, it is not (as of time of writing) the USA, but it *is* connected to the USA via the internet. 12/ 1182
E. Allyn Bloom 🇺🇳🇺🇸🏳️🌈🏳️⚧️🇺🇦 @ericallyn.bsky.social · 04/08/2026Or the New England version: "You can't get there from here, you have to go over there first." (Sometimes with "here" and "there" pronounced as "he-ah" and "they-ah".) 281
