Cory Doctorow on Nostr: But tech is different, because digital is *flexible* in a way analog can't be. Tech ...

But tech is different, because digital is *flexible* in a way analog can't be. Tech companies can "#twiddle" the back-ends of their #clouds to change the rules of the business from moment to moment, in a high-speed shell-game that can make it impossible to know what kind of deal you're getting:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/27/knob-jockeys/#bros-be-twiddlin

To make things worse, *users* are *banned* from twiddling. The thicket of rules we call #IP ensure that twiddling is only done against users, never *for* them.

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