Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition

The GDPR forbids competition in human rights abuses.

Cory Doctorow
OneZero
Published in
8 min readJun 11, 2021

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EFF’s interoperability banner graphic, a kind of Rube Goldberg machine integrating pulleys, belts, megaphones, emoticons, lightbulbs, HTML tags, a Creative Commons icon, a radio tower, a padlock, etc.

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.

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