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"Who Broke the Internet?" is a new podcast from CBC Understood that I… |
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Post #AttkY0CDGKMUwRTVdA by [email protected] |
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The thesis of the series - and indeed, of my life's work - is that the inte… |
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These wreckers are the largely forgotten authors of our misery, and they mingle… |
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"Who Broke the Internet?" aims to change that. But the series isn'… |
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Post #AttkY1FRLoXOCjzbIe by [email protected] |
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The crux of enshittification theory is this: tech bosses made their products an… |
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Post #AttkY1bm0mOzK0RR6u by [email protected] |
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Finally, they expanded IP laws to ensure that technology could only ever be use… |
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Or your irreplaceable workers would down tools and refuse to obey your orders; … |
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Post #AttkY2csEAsOThxpSq by [email protected] |
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As these constraints fell away, the environment became *enshittogenic*: rather … |
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Post #AttkY38mJYOg4etJC4 by [email protected] |
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An enshittogenic environment meant that individuals within companies who embrac… |
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Post #AttkY3Z0k1NfO1AG5A by [email protected] |
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Top tech bosses - the C-suite - went from being surrounded by "adult super… |
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Post #AttkY40f5DUylm6LBI by [email protected] |
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"Who Broke the Internet?" covers the collapse of all of these constra… |
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Post #AttkY4RFUMlY6EXZce by [email protected] |
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Interoperability is at the center of the enshittification story because interop… |
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Post #AttkY4uJkI1BYO8mvo by [email protected] |
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That flexibility is why we call computers a "general purpose" technol… |
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It's that flexibility that lets tech companies send over-the-air "upda… |
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Post #AttkY5l8ZuGkCCqyGG by [email protected] |
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But that flexibility cuts both ways. The fact that every computer can run every… |
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For every program that tells your HP printer to reject third-party ink, forcing… |
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Post #AttkY6ZTYkXEiKPAiu by [email protected] |
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Interop has long been tech's most important disenshittifier. Interop harnes… |
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Post #AttkY72BpzVI9Nq6To by [email protected] |
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And if they succeed and then recapitulate the sins of Instagram's bosses, t… |
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Post #AttkY7VG5ukvbXRJmy by [email protected] |
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There's nothing wrong with moving fast and breaking things - provided the t… |
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The most pernicious IP law is far and away "anticircumvention." Under… |
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Post #AttkY8Jb4l1Q7ezWFc by [email protected] |
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But oh, it *is*.One of the best ways to grasp this point is to start with what … |
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Post #AttkY8lFPx8jVPvbLk by [email protected] |
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But once HP puts a digital lock on the printer that checks to see if you've… |
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Post #AttkY9Ctl9G2tArgRs by [email protected] |
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Or think about cars: taking *your* car to *your* mechanic does not violate anyo… |
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Now, it's your car, and error messages aren't copyrighted works, but by… |
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It is the *literal opposite* of a copyright violation: an author selling their … |
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Installing software without going through the manufacturer's app store requ… |
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We created this enshittogenic environment, and we got the enshittocene.That'… |
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When Al Gore was overseeing the demilitarization of the internet (the "Inf… |
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So Lehman scuttled to Switzerland, where a UN agency, the World Intellectual Pr… |
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WIPO is a very bad agency, since the majority of delegations that are sent to G… |
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But even at WIPO, Lehman's proposal was viewed as far too extreme. In the e… |
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But if you break a lock and you *don't* infringe copyright (say, because yo… |
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They successfully pressured Congress into passing Section 1201 of the Digital M… |
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Once America adopted this extreme anticircumvention rule, the US Trade Represen… |
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(The information minister of a Central American country once told me that the U… |
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These neocolonialists found plenty of Parliamentary sellouts willing to introdu… |
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For example, the Liberal MP Sam Bulte was challenged on her support of the rule… |
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Stephen Harper's Conservatives made multiple tries at this. After Jim Prent… |
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This backfired horribly. Over 6,000 Canadians wrote into the consultation with … |
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Named individuals created policies in living memory. They were warned about the… |
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Rather, it is to recover the true history of enshittification, the choices we m… |
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There's never been a more urgent moment to reconsider those enshittificator… |
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It's time to get rid of that law, and make it legal for Canadian technologi… |
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Post #AttkYIYqytARtsCqQ4 by [email protected] |
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"Understood: Who Broke the Internet" is streaming now. We've got … |
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I'm on a 20+ city book tour for my new novel *Picks and Shovels*. Catch me … |
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@pluralistic God, yes. If there's one thing I don't want is sitting the… |
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@pluralistic I'm excited to listen. Thanks for doing this work! |
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@pluralistic would you share the list of music tracks you used in the backgroun… |
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@pluralistic love it, thanks! |
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@pluralistic Nice, been thinking that CBC has not been amplifying you nearly… |
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@pluralistic Sweet, just subbed. 🥳 |
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@pluralistic Listening! |
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@pluralistic Subscribed! |
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@pluralistic Very stoked to listen to this! |
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@pluralistic We all know who broke the Internet, mate. It was Jen! |
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@mtconleyuk @pluralistic the Elders of the Internet will be so disappointed in … |
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@sleepy62 @pluralistic 0r just read his opinions. |
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@huntingdon @pluralistic As someone put it, "move fast and break things&qu… |
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@pluralistic How do they define "internet".Some of us define "in… |
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@pluralistic Just started listening yesterday! Am considering putting it on the… |
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@evan thank you! |
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@pluralisticRegarding "broken internet"....Where's the RSS-feed t… |
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@inkorrupt @pluralistic Understood: Don't Be EvilStarting from: 00:00:00Epi… |
