If you sign up to the ECHR you are saying that you will secure the rights defined under it within your jurisdiction; that’s Article 1. So it doesn’t make the laws, but it requires that they be made.

Cory Doctorow (pluralistic.net) has a number of stories now on the concept of “enshittification”. Basically businesses start off being good to customers but eventually get to a point where, if they’re dominant the drive for endless profit results in them turning to squeezing suppliers, customers, everyone.

Tech enables new forms of exploitation.