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Against Enshitification feat. Cory Doctorow

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The Rise of the Internet Archive and Digital Lending

Librarians were the first people to sound the alarm on how the Patriot Act would allow the FBI and other security services to gag people who had information about you. There was a librarian at Library of Congress who warned that sneak and peek warrants could be used against Americans by law enforcement agencies. The internet archive and digital lending is an attempt to try and do the kinds of things tech firms claim that they want to do but in a nonprofit transparent accessible way. It's not grounded in extraction and profit and growth but rather in universal access and equity, he says.

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