#MCD Elections 2022

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Delhi Nagar Nigam के कर्मचारियों ने नियमितीकरण के लिए CM Kejriwal को कहा धन्यवाद

Delhi Nagar Nigam नई दिल्ली नगरपालिका परिषद (NDMC) के तत्कालीन आरएमआर (नियमित मस्टर रोल) कर्मचारियों ने उन्हें नियमित करने के लिए मुख्यमंत्री अरविंद केजरीवाल CM Kejriwal के प्रति आभार व्यक्त किया है। RMR कर्मचारियों को बुधवार को नई दिल्ली निर्वाचन क्षेत्र में आयोजित एक कार्यक्रम में नियमित किया गया। कर्मचारी कई वर्षों से संविदा पर काम कर रहे थे और लंबे समय से नियमितीकरण की उम्मीद कर रहे थे। इससे…

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Antiusurpation and the road to disenshittification

THIS WEEKEND (November 8-10), I'll be in TUCSON, AZ: I'm the GUEST OF HONOR at the TUSCON SCIENCE FICTION CONVENTION.

Nineties kids had a good reason to be excited about the internet's promise of disintermediation: the gatekeepers who controlled our access to culture, politics, and opportunity were crooked as hell, and besides, they sucked.

For a second there, we really did get a lot of disintermediation, which created a big, weird, diverse pluralistic space for all kinds of voices, ideas, identities, hobbies, businesses and movements. Lots of these were either deeply objectionable or really stupid, or both, but there was also so much cool stuff on the old, good internet.

Then, after about ten seconds of sheer joy, we got all-new gatekeepers, who were at least as bad, and even more powerful, than the old ones. The net became Tom Eastman's "Five giant websites, each filled with screenshots of the other four." Culture, politics, finance, news, and especially power have been gathered into the hands of unaccountable, greedy, and often cruel intermediaries.

Oh, also, we had an election.

This isn't an election post. I have many thoughts about the election, but they're still these big, unformed blobs of anger, fear and sorrow. Experience teaches me that the only way to get past this is to just let all that bad stuff sit for a while and offgas its most noxious compounds, so that I can handle it safely and figure out what to do with it.

While I wait that out, I'm just getting the job done. Chop wood, carry water. I've got a book to write, Enshittification, for Farar, Straus, Giroux's MCD Books, and it's very nearly done:

https://twitter.com/search?q=from%3Adoctorow+%23dailywords&src=typed_query&f=live

Compartmentalizing my anxieties and plowing that energy into productive work isn't necessarily the healthiest coping strategy, but it's not the worst, either. It's how I wrote nine books during the covid lockdowns.

And sometimes, when you're not staring directly at something, you get past the tunnel vision that makes it impossible to see its edges, fracture lines, and weak points.

So I'm working on the book. It's a book about platforms, because enshittification is a phenomenon that is most visible and toxic on platforms. Platforms are intermediaries, who connect buyers and sellers, creators and audiences, workers and employers, politicians and voters, activists and crowds, as well as families, communities, and would-be romantic partners.

There's a reason we keep reinventing these intermediaries: they're useful. Like, it's technically possible for a writer to also be their own editor, printer, distributor, promoter and sales-force:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/19/crad-kilodney-was-an-outlier/#intermediation

But without middlemen, those are the only writers we'll get. The set of all writers who have something to say that I want to read is much larger than the set of all writers who are capable of running their own publishing operation.

The problem isn't middlemen: the problem is powerful middlemen. When an intermediary gets powerful enough to usurp the relationship between the parties on either side of the transaction, everything turns to shit:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/12/direct-the-problem-of-middlemen/

A dating service that faces pressure from competition, regulation, interoperability and a committed workforce will try as hard as it can to help you find Your Person. A dating service that buys up all its competitors, cows its workforce, captures its regulators and harnesses IP law to block interoperators will redesign its service so that you keep paying forever, and never find love:

https://www.npr.org/sections/money/2024/02/13/1228749143/the-dating-app-paradox-why-dating-apps-may-be-worse-than-ever

Multiply this a millionfold, in every sector of our complex, high-tech world where we necessarily rely on skilled intermediaries to handle technical aspects of our lives that we can't – or shouldn't – manage ourselves. That world is beholden to predators who screw us and screw us and screw us, jacking up our rents:

https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/yes-there-are-antitrust-voters-in

Cranking up the price of food:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/10/04/dont-let-your-meat-loaf/#meaty-beaty-big-and-bouncy

And everything else:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/11/06/attention-rents/#consumer-welfare-queens

(Maybe this is a post about the election after all?)

The difference between a helpmeet and a parasite is power. If we want to enjoy the benefits of intermediaries without the risks, we need policies that keep middlemen weak. That's the opposite of the system we have now.

Take interoperability and IP law. Interoperability (basically, plugging new things into existing things) is a really powerful check against powerful middlemen. If you rely on an ad-exchange to fund your newsgathering and they start ripping you off, then an interoperable system that lets you use a different exchange will not only end the rip off – it'll make it less likely to happen in the first place because the ad-tech platform will be afraid of losing your business:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2023/05/save-news-we-must-shatter-ad-tech

Interoperability means that when a printer company gouges you on ink, you can buy cheap third party ink cartridges and escape their grasp forever:

https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2020/11/ink-stained-wretches-battle-soul-digital-freedom-taking-place-inside-your-printer

Interoperability means that when Amazon rips off audiobook authors to the tune of $100m, those authors can pull their books from Amazon and sell them elsewhere and know that their listeners can move their libraries over to a different app:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/09/07/audible-exclusive/#audiblegate

But interoperability has been in retreat for 40 years, as IP law has expanded to criminalize otherwise normal activities, so that middlemen can use IP rights to protect themselves from their end-users and business customers:

https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/

That's what I mean when I say that "IP" is "any law that lets a business reach beyond its own walls and control the actions of its customers, competitors and critics."

For example, there's a pernicious law 1998 US law that I write about all the time, Section 1201 of the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, the "anticircumvention law." This is a law that felonizes tampering with copyright locks, even if you are the creator of the undelying work.

So Amazon – the owner of the monopoly audiobook platform Audible – puts a mandatory copyright lock around every audiobook they sell. I, as an author who writes, finances and narrates the audiobook, can't provide you, my customer, with a tool to remove that lock. If I do so, I face criminal sanctions: a five year prison sentence and a $500,000 fine for a first offense:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/07/25/can-you-hear-me-now/#acx-ripoff

In other words: if I let you take my own copyrighted work out of Amazon's app, I commit a felony, with penalties that are far stiffer than the penalties you would face if you were to simply pirate that audiobook. The penalties for you shoplifting the audiobook on CD at a truck-stop are lower than the penalties the author and publisher of the book would face if they simply gave you a tool to de-Amazon the file. Indeed, even if you hijacked the truck that delivered the CDs, you'd probably be looking at a shorter sentence.

This is a law that is purpose-built to encourage intermediaries to usurp the relationship between buyers and sellers, creators and audiences. It's a charter for parasitism and predation.

But as bad as that is, there's another aspect of DMCA 1201 that's even worse: the exemptions process.

You might have read recently about the Copyright Office "freeing the McFlurry" by granting a DMCA 1201 exemption for companies that want to reverse-engineer the error-codes from McDonald's finicky, unreliable frozen custard machines:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/10/28/mcbroken/#my-milkshake-brings-all-the-lawyers-to-the-yard

Under DMCA 1201, the Copyright Office hears petitions for these exemptions every three years. If they judge that anticircumvention law is interfering with some legitimate activity, the statute empowers them to grant an exemption.

When the DMCA passed in 1998 (and when the US Trade Rep pressured other world governments into passing nearly identical laws in the decades that followed), this exemptions process was billed as a "pressure valve" that would prevent abuses of anticircumvention law.

But this was a cynical trick. The way the law is structured, the Copyright Office can only grant "use" exemptions, but not "tools" exemptions. So if you are granted the right to move Audible audiobooks into a third-party app, you are personally required to figure out how to do that. You have to dump the machine code of the Audible app, decompile it, scan it for vulnerabilities, and bootstrap your own jailbreaking program to take Audible wrapper off the file.

No one is allowed to help you with this. You aren't allowed to discuss any of this publicly, or share a tool that you make with anyone else. Doing any of this is a potential felony.

In other words, DMCA 1201 gives intermediaries power over you, but bans you from asking an intermediary to help you escape another abusive middleman.

This is the exact opposite of how intermediary law should work. We should have rules that ban intermediaries from exercising undue power over the parties they serve, and we should have rules empowering intermediaries to erode the advantage of powerful intermediaries.

The fact that the Copyright Office grants you an exemption to anticircumvention law means nothing unless you can delegate that right to an intermediary who can exercise it on your behalf.

A world without publishing intermediaries is one in which the only writers who thrive are the ones capable of being publishers, too, and that's a tiny fraction of all the writers with something to say.

A world without interoperability intermediaries is one in which the only platform users who thrive are also skilled reverse-engineering ninja hackers – and that's an infinitesimal fraction of the platform users who would benefit from interoperabilty.

Let this be your north star in evaluating platform regulation proposals. Platform regulation should weaken intermediaries' powers over their users, and strengthen their power over other middlemen.

Put in this light, it's easy to see why the ill-informed calls to abolish Section 230 of the Communications Decency Act (which makes platform users, not platforms, responsible for most unlawful speech) are so misguided:

https://www.techdirt.com/2020/06/23/hello-youve-been-referred-here-because-youre-wrong-about-section-230-communications-decency-act/

If we require platforms to surveil all user speech and block anything that might violate any law, we give the largest, most powerful platforms a permanent advantage over smaller, better platforms, run by co-ops, hobbyists, nonprofits local governments, and startups. The big platforms have the capital to rig up massive, automated surveillance and censorship systems, and the only alternatives that can spring up have to be just as big and powerful as the Big Tech platforms we're so desperate to escape:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/03/23/evacuate-the-platforms/#let-the-platforms-burn

This is especially grave given the current political current, where fascist politicians are threatening platforms with brutal punishments for failing to censor disfavored political views.

Anyone who tells you that "it's only censorship when the government does it" is badly confused. It's only a First Amendment violation when the government does it, sure – but censorship has always relied on intermediaries. From the Inquisition to the Comics Code, government censors were only able to do their jobs because powerful middlemen, fearing state punishments, blocked anything that might cross the line, censoring far beyond the material actually prohibited by the law:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/02/22/self-censorship/#hugos

We live in a world of powerful, corrupt middlemen. From payments to real-estate, from job-search to romance, there's a legion of parasites masquerading as helpmeets, burying their greedy mouthparts into our tender flesh:

https://www.capitalisnt.com/episodes/visas-hidden-tax-on-americans

But intermediaries aren't the problem. You shouldn't have to stand up your own payment processor, or learn the ins and outs of real-estate law, or start your own single's bar. The problem is power, not intermediation.

As we set out to build a new, good internet (with a lot less help from the US government than seemed likely as recently as last week), let's remember that lesson: the point isn't disintermediation, it's weak intermediation.

If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this post to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2024/11/07/usurpers-helpmeets/#disreintermediation

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Delhi MCD Election Result 2022 : दिल्लीच्या पराभवातही भाजपाला मोठा दिलासा

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022 : दिल्लीच्या पराभवातही भाजपाला मोठा दिलासा

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022 : दिल्लीच्या पराभवातही भाजपाला मोठा दिलासा नवी दिल्ली :– दिल्ली पालिका निवडणुकीत पराभव झाला तरी समाधान मानाव्या अशा काही बाबी भाजपच्या वाट्याला आल्या आहेत. जिंकलेल्या वॉर्ड संख्येत शतकी मजल पार करून भाजप मजबूत विरोधी पक्ष म्हणून पुढे आला आहे. एवढेच नव्हे तर, यावेळी भाजपच्या वाट्याला आलेल्या मतांमध्ये वाढ झाली आहे. मागील पालिका निवडणुकांत त्या पक्षाला 36.08 टक्के…

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Delhi MCD Election Result 2022:-AAP ने 75 सीटों और बीजेपी ने 55 पर जीत हासिल की,मतगणना जारी

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022:-AAP ने 75 सीटों और बीजेपी ने 55 पर जीत हासिल की,मतगणना जारी

नई दिल्ली.AAP ने 75 सीटों पर जीत हासिल की है और 60 पर आगे चल रही है, बीजेपी ने 55 सीटों पर जीत हासिल की है और 48 सीटों पर आगे चल रही है, मतगणना जारी है।कांग्रेस ने 4 सीटें जीत ली है��, 5 पर आगे हैं और निर्दलीय उम्मीदवार ने 1 जीत दर्ज़ की, 2 पर आगे हैं।अब दिल्ली की सफाई होगी: पंजाब के मुख्यमंत्री भगवंत मान ने कहा MCD में हम शानदार जीत दर्ज़ करने वाले हैं। अरविंद केजरीवाल ने कांग्रेस की 15 साल की…

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Delhi MCD Election Results 2022: AAP ahead of BJP in South West Delhi

Delhi MCD Election Results 2022: AAP ahead of BJP in South West Delhi

Delhi MCD Election Results 2022: Aam Aadmi Party is leading on 17 seats in South West Delhi, which has a total of 31 seats. Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), which has ruled Delhi for the last 15 years, is leading on 14 seats. Even as BJP trails behind, it has won in the Greater Kailash ward. It is also leading in Chirag Delhi. Meanwhile, Delhi BJP chief Adesh Gupta said the people of Delhi will take…

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delhi govt | delhi lieutenant governor | mcd election 2023 | delhi mcd election 2022 | Manish sisodia

Proposal sent to Lieutenant Governor to hold Mayor elections in Delhi, elections may be held on February 13-14 The Delhi Government has sent a proposal to the Lieutenant Governor to hold the mayoral elections on February 13 or 14. Deputy Chief Minister Manish Sisodia has sent a proposal on behalf of the Urban Development Department.  The government has once again sent a proposal for the election…

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Delhi BJP to Discuss Organisational Issues, Upcoming Programmes in 2-day Executive Meeting

Last Updated: January 27, 2023, 14:29 IST The two-day executive committee meeting will also discuss roadmaps for the upcoming events including the 2024 Parliamentary and 2025 Delhi Assembly elections (Representational pic/Reuters) A discussion on the party’s performance in the past six months will include its defeat in the 2022 Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) elections at the hands of the…

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How is Delhi MCD Mayor Election conducted? Know why BJP, AAP are at war

How is Delhi MCD Mayor Election conducted? Know why BJP, AAP are at war

The Aam Aadmi Party (AAP) won the Delhi MCD elections 2022 with a whopping majority, ending the reign of power of the Bhartiya Janta Party (BJP), which had been ruling over the Delhi MCD for 15 years. Now comes the turn of electing a mayor of Delhi. Even though the BJP lost the MCD elections 2022 in Delhi with around 104 out of the total 250 seats, it has been said that the mayor of Delhi can be…

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Election for Mayor, Deputy Mayor to be Held on Jan 6

Election for Mayor, Deputy Mayor to be Held on Jan 6

Last Update: December 21, 2022, 21:07 IST Voting for the MCD elections was held on November 4 and the results were declared on November 7. (PTI photo) The last date for filing nominations for the mayoral election is December 27, 2022 Notification has been issued for the election of Mayor and Deputy Mayor of Municipal Corporation of Delhi (MCD) in the first meeting of MCD to be held on January…

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MCD Election Result 2022: BJP can still have the Mayor seat despite AAP win; Here's how.

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"बहुत बड़ी जीत": MCD चुनाव में AAP के प्रदर्शन पर बोले राज्यसभा सांसद हरभजन सिंह

“बहुत बड़ी जीत”: MCD चुनाव में AAP के प्रदर्शन पर बोले राज्यसभा सांसद हरभजन सिंह

हरभजन सिंह आम आदमी पार्टी की तरफ से राज्यसभा सांसद हैं. नई दिल्ली: दिल्ली के नगर निगम चुनावों (MCD Elections 2022) में आम आदमी पार्टी (AAP) का डंका बजा है. आप ने 15 साल से शासन कर रही बीजेपी को हरा दिया है. आप के राज्यसभा सांसद हरभजन सिंह (AAP MP Harbhajan Singh) ने दिल्ली नगर निगम (एमसीडी) चुनावों में अपनी पार्टी की जीत को “बहुत बड़ी जीत” बताया है. यह भी पढ़ें भारतीय क्रिकेट टीम का हिस्सा रहे…

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Delhi MCD Election Result 2022 : दिल्लीत आपचा भाजपला दे धक्का; BJP ची गेल्या 15 वर्षांची सत्ता संपुष्टात

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022 : दिल्लीत आपचा भाजपला दे धक्का; BJP ची गेल्या 15 वर्षांची सत्ता संपुष्टात

Delhi MCD Election Result 2022 : दिल्लीत आपचा भाजपला दे धक्का; BJP ची गेल्या 15 वर्षांची सत्ता संपुष्टात नवी दिल्ली – दिल्ली महापालिकेच्या चुरशीच्या निवडणुकीत आम आदमी पक्षाने स्पष्ट बहुमत मिळवीत या महापालिकेतील गेल्या पंधरा वर्षांची भाजपची सत्ता संपुष्टात आणली आहे. आम आदमी पक्षाने येथे स्वबळावर बहुमत मिळवत भाजपला प्रथमच धूळ चारली आहे. दिल्ली विधानसभेत आम आदमी पक्षाने दोन वेळा प्रचंड बहुमत मिळवले…

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LIVE Delhi MCD Election Result 2022

LIVE Delhi MCD Election Result 2022

live MCD Election Result 2022 LIVE Updates: Contrary to exit poll predictions, Bharatiya Janata Party has taken lead in early trends. The party is ahead on 110 wards, AAP leading in 100. Congress is at distant third. All the exit polls have predicted a landslide victory for Aam Aadmi Party (AAP), however, it would be interesting to see what Delhhites have decided for the next 5 years. Stay tuned…

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Delhi MCD Election Results 2022: भाजपा, आप और कांग्रेस प्रत्याशियों में किसे कहां से मिली जीत, देखें पूरी सूची

Delhi MCD Election Results 2022: भाजपा, आप और कांग्रेस प्रत्याशियों में किसे कहां से मिली जीत, देखें पूरी सूची

वार्ड भाजपा प्रत्याशी AAP प्रत्याशी कांग्रेस प्रत्याशी किसकी जीत अबुल फैजल एनक्लेव चरण सिंह वाजिद खान अरिबा खान  कांग्रेस आदर्शनगर अनुभव धीर मुकेश गोयल वीरेंद्र गोयल  आप अलीपुर योगेश राणा दीप खत्री राज सिंह मान  भाजपा अमनविहार नरेंद्र मनराल रवींद्र भारद्वाज सुरेशचंद गुप्ता  AAP अमर कॉलोनी शरद कपूर जीतेंद्र कुमार देवेंद्र  भाजपा आनंदविहार मोनिका पंत राहुल जैन राजीव…

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APP Wins Delhi MCD Election in 2022 | Will BJD or BJP Win Padampur By Election on December 8, 2022?