Unspeakable

Big-Tech-as-cop vs. abolishing Big Tech

Cory Doctorow
11 min readOct 16, 2022

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Since late 2000, EU’s Digital Markets Act (DMA) has made steady progress, and now, despite US Big Tech companies’ illegal lobbying, it has become a law.

The DMA’s goal is a fairer, more pluralistic internet, not one consisting of five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of text from the other four.

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