<![CDATA["When #Trump started weaponising #US tech platforms ... he put the whole world on notice that he could shut down their govts, judiciaries or companies at the click of a mouse.]]>"When started weaponising tech platforms ... he put the whole world on notice that he could shut down their govts, judiciaries or companies at the click of a mouse.

And... he's whacked the whole with that violate the agreements that imposed those anticircumvention obligations that protect America's defective exports. Now there's no longer any reason to keep those laws on the books. Happy Liberation Day, everyone!"
- @pluralistic

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Cory Doctorow: Comrade Trump is the unwitting hero of a green revolution

In the first of a new monthly column for the Nerve, the author and cyber-activist argues that by dumping cheap solar panels on Asia and starting a catastrophic war in the Gulf, the president has started a headlong rush for cleantech that no eco-activism could match

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The Nerve (www.thenerve.news)

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]]>https://board.circlewithadot.net/topic/2150bdb0-fae7-41b1-8872-c5b52634e8e1/when-trump-started-weaponising-us-tech-platforms-...-he-put-the-whole-world-on-notice-that-he-could-shut-down-their-govts-judiciaries-or-companies-at-the-click-of-a-mouse.RSS for NodeFri, 15 May 2026 08:28:58 GMTWed, 06 May 2026 10:13:51 GMT60<![CDATA[Reply to "When #Trump started weaponising #US tech platforms ... he put the whole world on notice that he could shut down their govts, judiciaries or companies at the click of a mouse. on Wed, 06 May 2026 12:07:09 GMT]]>@ZhiZhu @pluralistic Absolultely. We gave US companies legal protection, and then that was used to hit us in the face, with threats of hitting us further.

Nobody else than Cory Doctorow seems to notice though, that the continuation of these threats rest on that we do not roll back the legal protections..

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