#AdversarialInteroperability is one of the most reliable ways to protect users from predatory corporations: it's when someone reverse-engineers a product to reconfigure or mod it (interoperability) in ways its users like, but which its manufacturer objects to (adversarial):
https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2019/10/adversarial-interoperability
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@happyborg @atomicpoet The real solution to the problem of commercialization of the Internet (of which the problem of #SocialMedia is a subproblem) is to de-illegalize #ReverseEngineering (or repeal what the PR types prefer to call #AntiCircumvention). Interoperability that requires permission is by definition not #AdversarialInteroperability.
@Rairii @gsuberland @cstross Always has. #DMCA & #DRM (https://www.defectivebydesign.org/) being used as weapons against #RightToRepair and #ComCom #ReverseEngineering leads to vast amounts of unnecessary e-waste and consumption every year.
Is it just me thinking Twitter is turning off their third-party API just to stop tools like debirdify and movetodon helping people get out of the walled garden? #Twitter #Mastodon #AdversarialInteroperability