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  1. Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff@mastodon.social)'s status on Thursday, 14-Nov-2019 12:10:04 EST Electronic Frontier Foundation Electronic Frontier Foundation

    The history of USENET and the alt. hierarchy shows what we lost when the Internet stopped being about protocols and started being about products—a catastrophe adversarial interoperability staved off for decades, until we blocked it with terrible tech laws. https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/11/altinteroperabilityadversarial

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      Today, we are told that the bigness of Big Tech giants was inevitable: the result of "network effects." For example, once everyone you want to talk to is on Facebook, you can't be convinced to use another, superior service, because all the people you'd use that service to talk to are still on...
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