@amszmidt

Absolutely not, current labour laws allow the use of literal slavery in the us (it's legal if they're prisoners), it allows not recognizing the subordination relationship between uber and its drivers (thus not giving them all the protections that the "employee" label has). It allows women to be systemically paid less than men because "individual merit" (found to be wrong by actual studies from the entire field of sociology)

In general the law only says what is ok and what is not ok but doesn't do *anything* to go from not ok to ok. It's the actual activism that create change, and a guy pushing for using the law framework against the idea of digital appropriation is exactly that: activism. The conferences, the os and tools, the advocacy, the funding, this is what creates change
@hipsterelectron