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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

This *should* create demand for privacy blockers, jailbreakers, and other "adversarial interoperability" tools that force your technology to work for *you*, even if the manufacturer wishes it were otherwise: pluralistic.net/2025/11/01/r... But we don't have "normal market conditions." 43/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

For more than a quarter of a century, the US Trade Representative has demanded that all of America's trading partners - including Canada - enact "anti-circumvention" laws that make it a crime to alter how a digital device works unless the original (usually American) manufacturer consents. 44/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 24/08/2026

In other words, it's *illegal* for some Waterloo grads to tap ambitious RIM millionaires for the seed capital to start a company that helps Canadians install Canadian app stores on their Canadian phones. 45/

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