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

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What it is

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.

Why Hacker News recommends it

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

  • 4 people recommended it
  • 3 different months
  • 1 strong recommendations
  • first 2023, last 2024

What HN commenters said

  1. “I really recommend Cory's talk at DEF CON”

    Doctorow's DEF CON talk on fighting big tech

    parski, 2023-10 · Strong recommendation · in “To Fight Big Tech, We Must Seize the Means of Computation”

  2. “Doctorow on halting enshittification and antitrust”

    neycoda, 2023-09 · Recommendation · in “FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power”

  3. “What is needed is what Cory Doctorow is saying.”

    Doctorow argues for fixing antitrust law

    takeda, 2023-09 · Recommendation · in “Google's 25th Birthday”

  4. “This is a good one”

    Talk on adversarial interoperability

    smashah, 2024-01 · Recommendation · in “Haier hits Home Assistant plugin dev with takedown notice”

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Topics: cory doctorow, antitrust, big tech, interoperability, platforms

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