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moonleay@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 个月前

Disenshittify or Die

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Disenshittify or Die

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moonleay@feddit.org to Technology@lemmy.worldEnglish · 10 个月前
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Pluralistic: “Disenshittify or Die” (17 Aug 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
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    The last time Congress managed to pass a federal consumer privacy law was in 1988: The Video Privacy Protection Act. That’s a law that bans video-store clerks from telling newspapers what VHS cassettes you take home. In other words, it regulates three things that have effectively ceased to exist.

    Corey Doctorow always hits so hard

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      And even though it’s being labeled as a “consumer privacy law” it was actually spurred by a politician getting upset that people might find out what he was renting. It was a self-serving law that had the side effect of also helping consumers.

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        Wasn’t it because a couple of anti-porn politicians were outed as having renting porn tapes (yet another thing that doesn’t really exist anymore)

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          IIRC that was what happened.

          • 【J】【u】【s】【t】【Z】@lemmy.world
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            That’s exactly right. It’s called the bork tapes, and it gives rise to the eponymous phrase, “getting borked.”

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        I wonder if there’s any case law that could support applying that law to other media, such as preventing streaming sites from handing watch history over to the media.

    • HeyThisIsntTheYMCA@lemmy.world
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      And that’s why you don’t get legal advice from the internet

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        Okay. I’ll allow it.

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