Cory Doctorow spoke at the 39C3 on 28 Dec ’25. There, he described a way to finally escape the US-controlled, enshittified internet — by means that D. J. Trump accidentally opened access to. ‘Virtually every government ministry, every major corporation, every small business, every household in the world have locked themselves into a US-based, cloud-based service.’‘So this is the third bloc in the disenshittification army: not just digital rights hippies like me; not just entrepreneurs and economic development wonks rubbing their hands together at the thought of transforming American trillions into European billions; but also the national security hawks who are 100% justified in their extreme concern about their country’s reliance on American platforms that have been shown to be totally unreliable.’A brilliant, encouraging speech, worth every one of its 61 minutes. Thank you @pluralistic Via @_elena and @DataKnightmare, thank you, too.https://pluralistic.net/2026/01/01/39c3/#the-new-coalition#Enshittification #Disenshittification #EU #Canada #USPol #Internet #39C3 #CoryDoctorow