Cory Doctorow, the writer, journalist, and activist who coined and popularized the term “enshittification” to decribe the decay of platforms, just released his book on the topic. The full title is: Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It.
I just got my copy, and I’m so excited to read it!
Blurb:
The once-glorious internet was colonized by platforms that made all-but-magical promises to their users—and, at least initially, seemed to deliver on them. But once users were locked in, the platforms turned on them to make their business customers happy. Then the platforms turned to abusing their business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. In the end, the platforms die.
[…] in Enshittification […], Doctorow moves the conversation beyond the overwhelming sense of our inevitably enshittified fate. He shows us the specific decisions that led us here, who made them, and—most important—how they can be undone.
Privacy is a human right. It is also a consumer right. And many other consumer rights intersect with privacy, like the right to own the data that you generate, but also the right to own the physical (devices, cars, printers, etc..) and digital (e-Books, movies, TV shows, software, etc..) things that you buy.
If you care about these privacy and tech related issues, and want to understand them better, and learn the ways we can fight the abuse of corporations, I highly recommend you give Doctorow’s book a read.
