The New Good Internet - Blog Posts
You cannot imagine how much I wish this!!!!!
I started with computers, hacking a Commodore 64, building my own board for new chips,
When there were no mice to click. ! You had to type everything. And write your code to make it work.
When I got a power Mac and access to real processing chips, I thought I was in heaven.
Now there are so many barriers to doing any of that, and they tell me this makes it better for me !
NO, IT DOESN’T. !
When I actually buy something I get to do whatever the fuck I want with it, because I bought it. !
I take complete responsibility for doing risky things. That’s all on me.
I miss the old, good internet, but I don’t want to bring it back.
I want a new, good internet. One where users can’t be locked in because we make it legal to:
• reverse-engineer products and services, so you can leave a social media platform but still send and receive messages from the people you leave behind;
• jailbreak your devices so you can remove antifeatures like surveillance, ink-locking or repair-blocking; • move your media and files out of the silo whence they originated and into any player you want.
I want a new, good internet where we constrain the conduct of tech companies, banning unfair labor practices, deceptive marketing, corporate hostage-taking and other forms of rent-extraction.
I want a new, good internet where it’s both illegal to impose bossware on your employees, and where those employees can legally hack the bossware their bosses shove down their throats.
I want a new, good internet where creative workers and their audiences can reliably connect with one another, where news reporting isn’t held hostage to extractive processes.
I want a new, good internet where we seize the means of computation so that the digital infrastructure that connects our romantic, personal, political, civic, economic, educational and family and social lives is operated by and for the people who use it.
-Enshitternet: The old, good internet deserves a new, good internet