The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our lives, says science fiction author, activist and journalist Cory Doctorow
That too but the article is more focused on how before the US would threaten countries with unreasonable tariffs if they didn’t comply and let US tech giants rule. Well…Trump already levied unreasonable tariffs, so if they are already hit with tarrifs, why not just created their.own versions of the solutions? Why not ban X and Grok?
Obviously Cory takes an optimistic view of what could be done. The way I look at it is that more and more countries will take a Chinese approach to tech and go for a total control over what we can do online and visibility (no privacy) into everything.
That too but the article is more focused on how before the US would threaten countries with unreasonable tariffs if they didn’t comply and let US tech giants rule. Well…Trump already levied unreasonable tariffs, so if they are already hit with tarrifs, why not just created their.own versions of the solutions? Why not ban X and Grok?
Obviously Cory takes an optimistic view of what could be done. The way I look at it is that more and more countries will take a Chinese approach to tech and go for a total control over what we can do online and visibility (no privacy) into everything.
I’m reminded of the XKCD toon about competing standards. Seems like we’re about to have some new ones!