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DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow

DEFCONConference · 302.8K views · 2023-09-15 · 45:43

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Cory Doctorow's DEF CON 31 talk describes how platforms decay in a pattern he calls enshittification. He lays out a plan to stop it through antitrust, interoperability and fixing the law.

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Recommended in threads on big tech, monopolies and adversarial interoperability as the clearest statement of his argument.

Recommended by 4 HN people across 3 months · HN mentions 2023–2024

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parski · 2023-10 · Strong recommendation

I really recommend Cory's talk at DEF CON and he was a guest on the Srsly Wrong podcast. DEF CON: [VIDEO] Srsly Wrong: [LINK] It's a great podcast. I recommend the episodes on degrowth and half earth socialism in particular.

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smashah · 2024-01 · Recommendation

You can see "Adversarial Interoperability" on Youtube to see talks on this. This is a good one: [VIDEO]

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neycoda · 2023-09 · Recommendation

Finally. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen to all of these giant corporations and utilities fighting for monopolies. Incidentally I heard today how many laws against anti-competitive behavior were stripped with Carter and Reagan onward, and it's become a trend in our hyper-corporatist world now that's hurting workers and income classes below the highest. Watch "DEF CON 31 - An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Ensh*ttification - Cory Doctorow" on YouTube [VIDEO]

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