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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026

The 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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026

Anti-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/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 14/08/2026

The world's would-be enshittifiers figured out a devious method to insert clauses into anti-circumvention that *looked* like anti-abuse measures, but which were, in practice, useless ornaments. 39/

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