Cory Doctorow: How Stupid Laws & Benevolent Dictators can Ruin the Decentralized Web, too
Why the open web links it
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.