Cory Doctorow<p>Standards development is an esoteric, hugely important activities that almost no one knows anything about. Good standards are key to an open, free internet, and as governments around the world grapple with Big Tech monopolies, their plans often include a block that basically reads "insert good standard here."</p><p>As exciting as the EU's <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DigitalMarketsAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DigitalMarketsAct</span></a> and US proposals like the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ACCESSAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACCESSAct</span></a> are, the "insert good standard here" stuff is wildly underspecified and undertheorized. </p><p>14/</p>
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Cory Doctorow<p>He endorses <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/interoperability" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>interoperability</span></a> mandates which would required dominant platforms to connect to the fediverse (facilitating their users' departure), like the ones in the EU's <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DSA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DSA</span></a> and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DMA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DMA</span></a>, and proposed in US legislation like the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ACCESSAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACCESSAct</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-digital-markets-acts-interoperability-rule-addresses-important-need-raises" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">eff.org/deeplinks/2022/04/eu-d</span><span class="invisible">igital-markets-acts-interoperability-rule-addresses-important-need-raises</span></a></p><p>36/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>The interoperability mandates in the Digital Markets Act (and in the US <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ACCESSAct" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ACCESSAct</span></a>, which seems unlikely to get a vote in this session of Congress) only force the largest platforms to open up, but Mastodon shows us the utility of interop for smaller services, too.</p><p>There are lots of domains in which "dominance" shouldn't be the sole criteria for whether you are expected to treat your customers fairly. </p><p>37/</p>
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