Kom over en veldig interessant talk om hvordan Trump (med et uhell) har gjort USAs tech-oligarker sårbare. Jeg tror Cory Doctorow presenterer noen veldig interessante argumenter på hva Europa kan gjøre, som er mer effektivt enn gjensidige tariffer eller underkue seg Trump sin bølling.
Siden videoen er veldig lang, så har jeg (ironisk nok) brukt AI til å generere en synopsis, slik at dere kan få argumentene som blir presentert uten å måtte bruke for mye tid.
🎙️ Synopsis of “A post‑American, enshittification‑resistant internet”
Cory Doctorow’s 39C3 keynote argues that the global internet has been structurally weakened by U.S. trade policy and Big Tech monopolies — and that the rest of the world now has a rare opportunity to build something better.
🌐 The central argument
Doctorow explains that for decades, the U.S. used trade agreements to force other countries to adopt laws that criminalized reverse‑engineering, modding, interoperability, and user‑empowering tools. These restrictions prevented other nations from resisting the “enshittification” of platforms — his term for the predictable decay cycle where platforms first serve users, then business customers, and finally only themselves.
✈️ Why now?
According to the talk, the global trade system has been destabilized by recent U.S. political decisions, creating a kind of “midair rapid disassembly” of the old order
Ironically, this disruption frees other countries from the pressure that once forced them to adopt anti‑interoperability laws.
🔧 What this enables
Doctorow argues that without U.S. trade threats, countries can finally:
Legalize adversarial interoperability (mods, alternative clients, scrapers, reverse‑engineering)
Break Big Tech’s lock‑in
Build an internet where users can escape abusive platforms
Encourage competition through compatibility rather than walled gardens
🧩 The villains of the story
He paints U.S. tech giants — “ketamine‑addled zuckermuskian tyrants,” as the talk jokingly puts it
— as the primary beneficiaries of the old system. Their dominance depended on laws that made it illegal for users to fix, modify, or interoperate with the tools they rely on.
🌍 The hopeful vision
Doctorow’s conclusion is optimistic: With the U.S. no longer able to enforce its old trade regime, the rest of the world can finally build a post‑American internet — one that is resilient, competitive, user‑controlled, and resistant to enshittification.