The IP Laws That Stop Disenshittification
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Laws included in trade deals protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes and stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump’s donor class.

Anticircumvention laws, included in trade deals to protect US companies’ rent extraction schemes, stop us from fixing or improving our own devices — from phones and tractors to insulin pumps. Repealing them will save billions and hit Trump’s donor class.

  • unexposedhazard@discuss.tchncs.deEnglish
    61·
    4 days ago

    You cant remove that double negative without making it incorrect. Its specifically about laws that prevent you from mitigating or bypassing enshittified parts of already enshittified platforms.

    These laws happen to also cause enshittification, but thats not what the article is about.

    • SaltSong@startrek.websiteEnglish
      1·
      2 days ago

      I’d go with “deshittification,” myself. It’s not important how or why they are shit, just that they are, and the laws in question prevent us from fixing it.

    • GamingChairModel@lemmy.worldEnglish
      82·
      4 days ago

      You cant remove that double negative without making it incorrect

      Sure you can: The IP Laws That Reinforce Enshittification.

      • taladar@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
        101·
        4 days ago

        That is not the same thing though. Your version sounds like the laws accelerate enshittification where the original is about the laws stopping a reversal of the enshittification that already happened in the past.