# notes --- - [[tech gets big through network effects and stays big because of high switching costs]] - [[{1.2a2f} federated social media could lessen the effects of context collapse]] - Updated [[{2.1b1a1} we’re living on the internet of shit]] - [[computers are universal which gives them inherently low switching costs and intrinsic interoperability]] - [[{2.1b2} so many products have digital locks because it allows the company to invoke section 1201 of the dmca]] - [[the answer to controlling big tech is forcing interoperability]] - [[technical surveillance allows people to travel through time and space]] - [[we deputize tech companies with governmental and law enforcement responsibilities]] - [[we should be able to view, edit, navigate, and use the data tracked about us through our digital tools and environments]] - [[what we think of as algorithmic radicalization is just how most of us surf the web]] # highlights --- ![[tech is the terrain on which our future fights will be fought|no-title clean]] --- ![[good regulation is the intersection of politics and expertise|no-title clean]] ---- ![[progress depends on competence, political will, and vision|no-title clean]] --- ![[these companies rule our digital world|no-title clean]] --- ![[in an ideal world, standards would be a kind of cool, scientific enterprise|no-title clean]] --- ![[jam tomorrow|no-title clean]] --- ![[we need to abolish zuck|clean no-title]] --- ![[historically buying something made it yours to use how you saw fit|clean no-title]] --- ![[consumer is a truly undignified self-conception|no-title clean]] --- ![[we should not endure a king over the production, transportation, and sale of the necessaries of life|clean no-title]] --- ![[the internet doesn't make more people vulnerable to bad ideas but it lets ideas of all kinds spread widely|no-title clean]] --- See also: - [“When we simplify complex systems, we destroy them” — Piper Haywood](https://piperhaywood.com/complexity-is-not-the-enemy-its-the-goal/) - [Jackson-rethinking-repair.pdf](https://raley.english.ucsb.edu/wp-content/Engl800/Jackson-rethinking-repair.pdf) - [The Fediverse of Things – Terence Eden’s Blog](https://shkspr.mobi/blog/2024/04/the-fediverse-of-things/) - [Freeing Ourselves From The Clutches Of Big Tech - NOEMA](https://www.noemamag.com/freeing-ourselves-from-the-clutches-of-big-tech/) - [We Need To Rewild The Internet](https://www.noemamag.com/we-need-to-rewild-the-internet/)