The Internet Isn’t What We Fight FOR, It’s What We Fight WITH

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Argues that laws like the anti-circumvention rule and Canada’s 2011 adoption let manufacturers and platforms criminalize tinkering and hide security flaws in defibrillators, tractors and voting machines; cites Australia’s demand for backdoors in crypto, the EU’s Article 13 forcing automated copyright filters, one‑hour terror takedowns after Christchurch, and YouTube’s $100M Content ID system plus 400 hours of uploads per minute — claiming these fixes centralize power, break safe harbors, and actively worsen safety.

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1. 0:00Start
2. 2:47The Anti-Circumvention Rule
3. 7:21Ban on Working Cryptography
4. 8:47The Four Horsemen
5. 28:17Facebook
6. 33:26Recap

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