Internet Con

How to Seize the Means of Computation

Häftad, Engelska, 2024

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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 extraction. Twitter, Facebook and other Big Tech platforms are 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 to 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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Utgivningsdatum2024-09-17
Mått127 x 196 x 15 mm
Vikt159 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor192
FörlagVerso Books
ISBN9781804292143

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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.

IntroductionPART I. SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION1. How Big Tech Got Big2. Network Effects vs. Switching Costs3. Copyright Wars, Cybercrime, Terrorism, Human Trafficking and Other Gifts to Big Tech4. Interop: From Computer Science to the Real World5. Standards and Mandates: What's Behind the Shield of Boringness?6. Adversarial Interop: Guerrilla Warfare and Reverse Engineering7. Jam Tomorrow: Life after We Seize the Means of Computation8. Jam Today: How We'll Get TherePART II. WHAT ABOUT9. 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 ViewingIndex

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