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Luis Villa (luis_in_brief@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 12:39:34 JST Luis Villa
- Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁
One of the challenges of the moment in tech is that by being so libertarian for so long we have forgotten (never knew?) how to advocate for @blakereid’s “positive regulatory agenda”. But he’s right that the world could be better if we had one. https://mastodon.lawprofs.org/@blakereid/111478109714735976
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  Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁 (@blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org)
  
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  The challenge for "technological self-determination" (via @pluralistic@mamot.fr) is that it needs the backing of a positive regulatory agenda, not just a negative liberty (pro-1A, anti-IP, anti-gov-surveillance) version that depends on interest convergence with tech cos. A normative agenda must navigate the narrow strait between deregulatory libertarianism on one side *and* rising fascism on the other, in a political environment that is fatally toxic to nuance. Not easy. https://locusmag.com/2023/11/commentary-by-cory-doctorow-dont-be-evil/
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  Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 12:39:32 JST Nathan Schneider
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  @luis_in_brief @blakereid This is why I think there must be a strategy of directly enabling more collective self-determination, not just more constraints on tech companies. Develop paths where people can control their tech and create meaningful competitors to VC-backed startups. The tech policy I am most interested in is policy that enables mutualist enterprise across the economy, not just in tech.
  The bonus is that economic democracy is bad for fascism.
  
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  Nathan Schneider (ntnsndr@social.coop)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 23:04:35 JST Nathan Schneider
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  @blakereid @luis_in_brief Totally agree. I said *not just*. But the enabling alternatives is essential for walking the narrow path you point to.
  
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  Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁 (blakereid@mastodon.lawprofs.org)'s status on Monday, 27-Nov-2023 23:04:36 JST Blake E. Reid 🍍🍕🥫🏁
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  @ntnsndr @luis_in_brief I think constraining tech companies is *critical* to enabling collective self-determination. The ease of capturing network effects in communications industries with externality-fueled business models is an enormous barrier to mutualist enterprise whose primary goal is to avoid those externalities. It’s a zero sum game that can’t be won without leveling the normative playing field.
  
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