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Comment by ETH_start

3 years ago

>Doctorow proposes forcing interoperability

No surprise that Doctorow proposes authoritarian solutions to create an "open web".

"It's open unless you run your server in ways me and my fellow ideologues disagree with"

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reuben364  3 years ago

Curious what your thoughts are on the paradox of tolerence? Google and the person hosting a static blog on a server in their basement are not the same.

  • ETH_start  3 years ago

    Legal consequences, which are backed by the state's apparatus of violence comprising of police, judges and prisons, should only be used against those who engage in fraud or violence. Running a closed API, as much as I may dislike it, is neither of those things.

    There are plenty of other ways to counter closed APIs that do not rely on initiating force.

    • reuben364  3 years ago

      There is also the tool of taxation and fines, which while in turn are backed by a threat of violence are not the black and white which you allude to.

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