Cory Doctorow

And, you know, as David Dye wrote in the American Prospect, this is like saying, well, ultimately, because you can sleep sometimes, there's always a competitor for your attention.

Right.

And and it's just wrong.

It's just wrong on its face.

So if the judge felt that the law was so constrained and I don't think that's a good interpretation, but if the law if the judge felt the law was so constrained that a company that was as obviously a monopolist as Google could not be convicted under the law, then that militates for legislative reform.

But it still means that, you know, it's what we got to do.

Like all the best Americans, I'm Canadian.

And in Newfoundland, there's this joke whose punchline is, if you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here.

I think that is very much where we are right now.

This is not the place we want to start from, but it is where we are.

Well,

No, I don't think it's too late.

I think the first thing to understand is that if you think that the reason that the method by which you will prevent and shitification is your own kind of moral core.

which is important, but not sufficient, then you're quite dangerous, right?

Then you are gonna end up getting, because no one woke up in the morning and said, how can I make things worse, right?

They rationalized their way into it.

They made all kinds of stepwise decisions where they then judged their next decision based on where they were now and not where they started.

So they're like, well, I've already done 10 bad things

Doing the 11th is just a small change from where I am now, but they don't say, well, it's 11 in total, right?

And so if you want to prevent yourself from compromising, you have to make compromise harder for yourself in the future.