Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability

Demonopolizing the Internet with Interoperability
How to shift power away from big tech and back to communities and individuals
Cory Doctorow
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Sep 23, 2021
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The Communications of the Association for Computing Machinery has just published my editorial, “Competitive Compatibility: Let’s Fix the Internet, Not the Tech Giants,” explaining how interoperability was once an engine for competition and user…
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Written by Cory Doctorow
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Writer, blogger, activist. Blog: https://pluralistic.net; Mailing list: https://pluralistic.net/plura-list; Mastodon: @pluralistic@mamot.fr
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