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[Cory Doctorow] With An Audacious Plan To Halt The Internet’s Enshittification And Throw It Into Reverse (hackaday.com)

submitted 14 hours ago by mesamunefire@lemmy.world to c/technology@lemmy.world

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[–] helenslunch@feddit.nl 8 points 12 hours ago (1 children)

Except the tech companies are among the politicians' biggest "donors".

[–] partial_accumen@lemmy.world 15 points 11 hours ago (1 children)

Except the tech companies are among the politicians’ biggest “donors”.

Public cloud computing companies that want to host government IT workloads still have to be Fedramp compliant. Doesn't matter how much their donors pay, if they aren't Fedramp compliant they can't bid for the work.

[–] AustralianSimon@lemmy.world 0 points 4 hours ago

Yeah but donations can help make procurement tenders slightly in favour of donors. Or get inside scoop so they have time to be ready.