Sofia Misenheimer
@sofiamisenheimer.bsky.social
Digital Editor, @ottawacitizen.com ✦ Montreal → Ottawa ✦ She/Her
Doctorow said a fix requires solidarity at internet scale. Europe already has GDPR portability. Social portability would let you take your posts and followers with you the way you keep a phone number when switching cell providers. Hard to enshittify a system users can leave.
Pluralistic: Social media needs (dumpster) fire exits (14 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.net
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Doctorow said a fix requires solidarity at internet scale. Europe already has GDPR portability. Social portability would let you take your posts and followers with you the way you keep a phone number when switching cell providers. Hard to enshittify a system users can leave.
Reagan gutted competition law in the US. Fewer rivals or regulators made the “umpire weaker than the players." The last US privacy law was in 1988 to stop video rental records leaking. Canada froze privacy law in the early 2000s and gutted enforcement during the Harper years.
10 reasons you should be creeped out by Stephen Harper’s anti-privacy agenda
Canadians’ privacy is in the spotlight after Stephen Harper’s controversial pick to be the country’s next privacy watchdog arrived on Parliament Hill on Tuesday amid a growing chorus of critics of the...
pressprogress.ca
October 26, 2025 at 7:41 PM
Reagan gutted competition law in the US. Fewer rivals or regulators made the “umpire weaker than the players." The last US privacy law was in 1988 to stop video rental records leaking. Canada froze privacy law in the early 2000s and gutted enforcement during the Harper years.
Ha! Probably would be a good time to give magnet fishing a try.
October 22, 2025 at 9:59 PM
Ha! Probably would be a good time to give magnet fishing a try.