Something for the weekend - how ironic would it be if Trump 2.0 is actually inadvertently liberating us from Big Tech? If so, give the guy a Nobel Prize for Economic Science

Against all odds, Electronic Frontier Foundation freedom fighter Cory Doctorow has been waging a lonely and difficult war against Big Tech’s and Big Media’s efforts to capture general purpose computing for 25 years. He coined the term 'enshittification' to elaborate on the different facets of this malaise, which the American Dialect Society crowned word of the year in 2023.

Now he is arguing that, despite Big Tech's attempts to cosy up to the administration, US President Donald Trump might actually be opening an opportunity to erode one of the sector's most precious moats protecting their institutionalized violence and theft. Specifically, Trump’s trade tirades, not to mention mandatory cloud spying and imposition of software vulnerabilities, are sparking an unlikely coalition of politicians, security researchers, and businesses against the 1998 US Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) and its global variants.

The DMCA was signed into law by ...