“Disenshittify or die” a rant about the history of tech, how it is bad and how it might get better ~tech internet Article 9588 words 122 votes
Twiddler: Configurability for me, but not for thee. (From the coiner of "enshittification") ~tech social media Article 3254 words, published Feb 19 2023 23 votes
I assure you, an AI didn't write a terrible "George Carlin" routine ~tech Article 3367 words 30 votes
Big Tech won’t let you leave. Here’s a way out. ~tech social media facebook google Article 806 words 28 votes
An audacious plan to halt the Internet's enshittification - Cory Doctorow ~tech internet Video 45:43, published Sep 15 2023 53 votes
How the kleptocrats and oligarchs hunt civil society groups to the ends of the Earth ~society politics Article 2806 words, published Aug 24 2023 20 votes
Autoenshittification: How the computer killed capitalism ~finance economics Article 4600 words 83 votes
Facebook thrives on criticism of “disinformation” ~tech social media facebook Article 41 words 11 votes
The battle for the soul of digital freedom taking place inside your printer ~tech security Article 1926 words 15 votes
A legislative path to an interoperable internet ~tech google internet Article 3051 words, published Jul 28 2020 9 votes
Human rights and "technical protection measures" (DRM) - Lessons from twenty-two years of the US DMCA ~tech Article 5492 words 9 votes
How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism - A new, short book by Cory Doctorow that looks at big tech as a monopoly problem ~tech privacy social media Article 28 088 words 18 votes
"Harbinger households" : Neighborhoods that consistently buy products that get discontinued, buy real-estate that underperforms, and donate to losing political candidates ~life Article 665 words, published Dec 3 2019 12 votes
Gopher: When adversarial interoperability burrowed under the gatekeepers' fortresses ~tech internet Article 2189 words 8 votes
Our neophobic, conservative AI overlords want everything to stay the same ~tech Article 968 words, published Jan 1 2020 11 votes
Mint: Late-stage adversarial interoperability demonstrates what we had (and what we lost) ~tech Article 1911 words, published Dec 5 2019 17 votes
“Affordances” - A new science-fiction short story by Cory Doctorow about algorithmic bias ~books science fiction short stories Article 5858 words, published Oct 26 2019 7 votes
Interoperability and privacy: Squaring the circle ~tech privacy Article 3156 words, published Aug 13 2019 6 votes
Swedish ISP punishes Elsevier for forcing it to block Sci-Hub by also blocking Elsevier ~tech Article 427 words, published Nov 3 2018 25 votes
Economists reverse claims that $15 Seattle minimum wage hurt workers, admit it was largely beneficial ~finance economics Article 492 words 14 votes
Cory Doctorow: "The EU is about to end everything that's good and pure about the internet" ~tech internet Article 739 words 12 votes
NASA's Lunar Orbiter pics from 1967/8 were deliberately fuzzed and downsampled to hide US spying capabilities ~space Article 726 words 16 votes
The EU's copyright proposal is extremely bad news for everyone, even (especially!) Wikipedia ~tech Article 1086 words 8 votes