Cory Doctorow: How Stupid Laws & Benevolent Dictators can Ruin the Decentralized Web, too

corydoctorow · 4K views · 2016 · 35:38

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Cory Doctorow discusses how laws and centralized control can undermine the decentralized web, using the concept of 'Ulysses pacts' to illustrate self-imposed constraints.

Linked by 2 independent sites, 2 of them widely read in the 2026-10 crawl of the open web, including ycombinator.com, craphound.com.