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Matthew Rimmer

‘Play by the rules’: Fortnite developer Epic Games wins Australian court battle against Apple and Google theguardian.com/australia-news
Fortnite was kicked off Google and Apple app stores in 2020 after Epic Games offered its own in-app payment system. #auslaw #auspol #competition

The Guardian · ‘Play by the rules’: Fortnite developer Epic Games wins partial victory in Australian court against Apple and GoogleBy Josh Taylor
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GEEXiES

The Geexy Awards, aka The GEEXiES, is a humble independent project offering nerdy/geeky artists, crafters, and makers a place to compete for exposure and recognition of their skills and talents.

And for anyone else with aligned interests to participate in the selection process of winners.

GEEXiES launches this September and preregistration is open.

#introduction#awards#competition
Matthew Rimmer

I made a submission this week to the Treasury of the Australian Government on the right to repair in the age of Tesla papers.ssrn.com/sol3/papers.cf #auslaw #auspol #righttorepair #consumerlaw #competition #IP #product #stewardship #SDGs #cars #Tesla

The Australian Treasurer Hon. Jim Chalmers has been promising to expand the right to repair - it will be interesting to see what emerges in this policy space.

Picture - ‘Tesla Cybertruck with Shattered Windows’, Wikimedia, CC-BY-SA 4.0, commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Fil

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Miguel Afonso Caetano

💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 💯 👉 "Here's why you're getting enshittified: we deliberately decided to stop enforcing competition laws. As a result, companies formed monopolies and cartels. This means that they don't have to worry about losing your business or labor to a competitor, because they don't compete. It also means that they can handily capture their regulators, because they can easily agree on a set of policy priorities and use the billions they've amassed by not competing to capture their regulators. They can hold a whip hand over their formerly powerful tech workers, mass-firing them and terrorizing them out of any Tron-inspired conceits about "fighting for the user." Finally, they can use IP law to shut down anyone who makes technology that disenshittifies their offerings.

You can take care to avoid enshittification, you can even make a fetish out of it, but without addressing these systemic failings, your individual actions will only get you so far. Sure, use privacy-enhancing tools like Signal to communicate with other people, but if the only way to get your kid to their little league game is to join the carpool group on Facebook, you're going to hemorrhage data about everything you do to Meta.

Likewise, you can use privacy-preserving adblockers in your browser, but the instant you've got to do business with a monopoly that requires you to use their app, you will be totally helpless before them, because anti-circumvention law felonizes modifying an app so it preserves your privacy.
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If you turn your personal campaign to live an enshittification-free life into a set of rigid practices that isolate you from your community, you will be miserable – and you will undermine your ability to address the systemic roots of enshittification.

That's because systemic problems have systemic solutions. They are addressed through mass movements..."

pluralistic.net/2025/07/31/uns

#Enshittification#Monopolies#Oligopolies
Thomas Barrio

De la mégamachine à l’auto-exploitation : Critique radicale de la compétition, de la performance et de l’aliénation contemporaine

🚩 De #Bourdieu à #Illouz, de #Foucault à #Adorno, plonger au cœur d’une #société minée par la #compétition, la #tyrannie de la #performance et l’#autoExploitation. Une analyse collective pour comprendre et contrer l’#atomisation, la #technocratie et la #perteDuCommun. #CritiqueSociale #aliénation #philosophie #postMarxisme À travers cette…

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Homo Hortus · De la mégamachine à l’auto-exploitation : Critique radicale de la compétition, de la performance et de l’aliénation contemporaine🚩 De #Bourdieu à #Illouz, de #Foucault à #Adorno, plonger au cœur d’une #société minée par la #compétition, la #tyrannie de la #performance et l’#autoExploitation. Une analyse collective pour compr…
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