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   • Cory Doctorow

   @pluralistic Access to the vast US market was the one positive trade-off for scrapping regulations against negligently unsafe products and practises. It was a high price to pay for that one little reward.

   So... with Donald Trump promising a tariff war, ending the era of getting access to the vast US market: why should any country persist in these policies ?
   Why should any country CARE what the US Trade Representative says if the ONLY thing they ever offered in return is no longer on the table ?

   I think it's time for some serious lobbying to get rid of policies and laws like that. There is literally NO reason to have them anymore.

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     • Cory Doctorow

     What @pluralistic said about Canada in his latest comment, is globally true.

     Throughout my lifetime the US has used free trade to pressure countries into making otherwise objectively bad policies. "If you get rid of good regulations we won't put tarriffs on your exports". Access to the vast US market was the only reward for terrible policies like criminalising "circumvention" devices, even when used to perform completely legal activities like backing up a movie, fixing a minor breakage on your tractor or car or converting an ebook for a braille-reader.

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