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You help by voting for people who will (continue to) throw out the intellectually and morally bankrupt Chicago School ideas of antitrust, and will hold big comp

You help by voting for people who will (continue to) throw out the intellectually and morally bankrupt Chicago School ideas of antitrust, and will hold big companies of all kinds accountable.[0] Because enshittification isn't a big-tech-specific problem. It's a problem in all the industries that are massively overconsolidated. So vote in every primary and general election, for every office on the ticket down to your local school board, because all of them are part of the system that actively enables enshittification—and can, if we can get enough people into those offices who believe in fixing it, work to oppose enshittification and dismantle the structures that allow it to continue. [0] Hm, I wonder if one political party is pretty reliably for this sort of change and the other one is pretty reliably for making things even worse...

skilled 3y ago
I'm not from the USA myself, sadly. I suppose I was asking in a more web-friendly context, as in - what can I do as a web user that may have a positive impact on the situation in the future? As I said, contributing software isn't something I can do, so what else? For example, I really like what Signal's Meredith Whittaker is doing with her voice, but she also has incredible reach, something most people (including myself) don't have.
- JohnFen 3y ago
  > what can I do as a web user that may have a positive impact on the situation in the future? Be discerning when it comes to who and what you're giving your attention and money to on the web. Avoid companies and websites that are working to further destroy things, even if that means giving up services that are convenient.
- mrguyorama 3y ago
  If you are outside the US, the best thing you can do is vote for people in your local Bloc that will not put up with US's bullshit idea of anti-trust just to gain access to facebook and google.
trinsic2 3y ago
I dunno. Its seems more like a systemic problem brought on by too many people in that system who have something to loose, you could vote in a bunch of people that have a desire to change this, but Im betting, and i have seen it before, that the people that operate behind the scenes in that system actively operate to undermine those efforts. I don't see a way to affect change on a political level without replacing all the players at once with people who actually care (not say they care and then use their positions for self-interest motives).

skilled 3y ago

I'm not from the USA myself, sadly. I suppose I was asking in a more web-friendly context, as in - what can I do as a web user that may have a positive impact on the situation in the future? As I said, contributing software isn't something I can do, so what else? For example, I really like what Signal's Meredith Whittaker is doing with her voice, but she also has incredible reach, something most people (including myself) don't have.

JohnFen 3y ago
> what can I do as a web user that may have a positive impact on the situation in the future? Be discerning when it comes to who and what you're giving your attention and money to on the web. Avoid companies and websites that are working to further destroy things, even if that means giving up services that are convenient.
mrguyorama 3y ago
If you are outside the US, the best thing you can do is vote for people in your local Bloc that will not put up with US's bullshit idea of anti-trust just to gain access to facebook and google.

trinsic2 3y ago

I dunno. Its seems more like a systemic problem brought on by too many people in that system who have something to loose, you could vote in a bunch of people that have a desire to change this, but Im betting, and i have seen it before, that the people that operate behind the scenes in that system actively operate to undermine those efforts. I don't see a way to affect change on a political level without replacing all the players at once with people who actually care (not say they care and then use their positions for self-interest motives).