Cory Doctorow, "The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation" (Verso, 2023)
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How to Create a Stable Administratable Remedy That Will Actually Cause Facebook to Color Within the Lines
Facebook has to surprise its investors at its next quarterly call and we know what that looks like right. We could rig it so that the individual decision makers who called for the api to be broken personally lost millions of dollars without ever having to go to court just by plunging them into guerrilla warfare. That i think is a way to create a stable administratable remedy one that will actually cause facebook to color within the lines even as its users evacuate the fire zone of facebook for safer pastures somewhere else.
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