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
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026Anti-circumvention law is so obviously, manifestly an invitation to enshittify that when governments enacted these laws, they felt the need to include some kind of "safety valve" they could point to when critics raised anti-circumvention's potential for abuse. 38/ 1183
