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

Why HN readers recommended it

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

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Video & recommendation details

Creator / channel

DEFCONConference

Topic

enshittification

Format

talk

Level

general

HN recommenders in dataset

4

HN mentions in dataset

6

Recommendation years in dataset

2023–2024

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From the original HN conversations

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• I really recommend Cory's talk at DEF CON and he was a guest on the Srsly Wrong podcast. DEF CON: [VIDEO] Srsly Wrong: [LINK] It's a great podcast. I recommend the episodes on degrowth and half earth socialism in particular.

• Finally. This is the kind of thing that needs to happen to all of these giant corporations and utilities fighting for monopolies. Incidentally I heard today how many laws against anti-competitive behavior were stripped with Carter and Reagan onward, and it's become a trend in …

• What is needed is what Cory Doctorow is saying. [VIDEO] We need to push politicians to fix the antitrust law. It isn't just Google that is benefiting from this now toothless law.