Cory Doctorow

The Internet Con (eBook, ePUB)

How to Seize the Means of Computation

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.

The platforms locked us into their systems and made us easy pickings, ripe for extaction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms hard to leave by design. They hold hostage the people we love, the communities that matter to us, the audiences and customers we rely on. The impossibility of staying connected to these people after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it's a business strategy in service to commodifying your personal life and relationships.

We can - we must - dismantle the tech platforms. In The Internet Con, Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.

Interoperability is the only route to the rapid and enduring annihilation of the platforms. The Internet Con is the disassembly manual we need to take back our internet.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books (direct)
• Seitenzahl: 193
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. September 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781804292167
• Artikelnr.: 68528984

Autorenporträt

Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently RADICALIZED and WALKAWAY, science fiction for adults; HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM, nonfiction about monopoly and conspiracy; IN REAL LIFE, a graphic novel; and the picture book POESY THE MONSTER SLAYER. His latest book is ATTACK SURFACE, a standalone adult sequel to LITTLE BROTHER. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame. He works for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, is a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate, is a Visiting Professor of Computer Science at Open University, a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of North Carolina's School of Library and Information Science and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I. SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION
1. How Big Tech Got Big
2. Network Effects vs. Switching Costs
3. Copyright Wars, Cybercrime, Terrorism, Human Trafficking and Other Gifts
to Big Tech
4. Interop: From Computer Science to the Real World
5. Standards and Mandates: What’s Behind the Shield of Boringness?
6. Adversarial Interop: Guerrilla Warfare and Reverse Engineering
7. Jam Tomorrow: Life after We Seize the Means of Computation
8. Jam Today: How We’ll Get There
PART II. WHAT ABOUT
9. What about Privacy?
10. What about Harassment?
11. What about Algorithmic Radicalization?
12. What about Child Sexual Abuse Material, Nonconsensual Pornography and
Terrorist Materials?
13. What about Warranties?
14. What about Poor Countries?
15. What about Blockchain?
Further Reading, Listening and Viewing
Index