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The ACCESS Act: The most significant interop legislation in US history.



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11 Jun
Five Big Tech antitrust bills were introduced in the House Judiciary Committee today; they're the most significant antitrust effort in more than half a century, and they cover a lot of ground.

cicilline.house.gov/press-release/…

1/ EFF's interoperability banner graphic, a kind of Rube Goldbe
There's a bill to ban "self-preferencing" (when a company-run marketplace pushes its inferior products over its rivals' superior ones); another to block anticompetitive acquisitions; a bill to block "walled garden"; and a bill to fund the FTC to police all this stuff.

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But I'm most excited about is the #ACCESSAct, a bill to force interoperability on the biggest tech platforms, the kinds of services people use because they have to, because their friends or communities or customers (or media) are locked into them.

eff.org/deeplinks/2021…

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11 Jun
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Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/06/11/tec…

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Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition: The GDPR forbids competition in human rights abuses.



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#20yrsago Embarassing gaffe in Microsoft’s anti-Linux campaign web.archive.org/web/2001061915…

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Tech monopoly apologists insist that there's something exceptional about tech that makes it so concentrated: "network effects" (when a product gets better because more people use it, like a social media service).

They're wrong.

1/ EFF's interoperability banner graphic, a kind of Rube Goldbe
(If you'd like an unrolled version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:)

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Tech is concentrated because the Big Tech companies buy up or crush their nascent competitors - think of Facebook's predatory acquisition of Instagram, which Zuckerberg admitted (in writing!) was driven by a desire to recapture the users who were leaving FB in droves.

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