By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Nor was this a merely American sickness. Having neutered domestic competitors that might threaten its tech incumbents, the US government set out to prevent other countries from challenging its world-girdling tech empires. 35/ 1170
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026For the past 25 years, the US Trade Representative has prioritized getting anticircumvention laws on the books of all of America's trading partners as a condition of free trade with the US. 36/ 1153
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026The result: today, virtually every country in the world has a law that makes it illegal to disrupt American tech giants: pluralistic.net/2026/05/05/t... 37/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The three armies fighting for the post-American world (05 May 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1205
