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        Systems Innovation
        DrRon Suarez a year ago

        Cory Doctorow: An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet’s Enshittification and Throw It Into Reverse
        Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His most recent works are THE INTERNET CON: HOW TO SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION, a Big Tech disassembly manual, and RED TEAM BLUES, a science fiction crime thriller. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.

        The enshittification of the internet follows a predictable trajectory: first, platforms are good to their users; then, they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to take back value for themselves. In his talk, Cory will take the audience through the process of disenshittifying the internet via antitrust, limits on corporate tweaking, privacy laws, and other protections.
        https://www.youtube.com/live/VT1ud0rAT7w?si=FanDDn_cEB2jsjvn

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          “fiber

          1:04:07

          is a thing and like getting fiber to people’s homes is a thing that was

          1:04:13

          solved back in like the 19th century right like the people who pulled electrical wires and phone wires to

          1:04:20

          Lonely farmhouses at the end of country lanes were not not like practicing a

          1:04:25

          forgotten art this isn’t like embalming pharaohs right like we know how to get

          1:04:31

          wires to places um there’s a a county I’ve just blanked its name there’s a county in Kentucky in Appalachia it’s

          1:04:37

          the um it’s called the poorest White County in America because obviously race and income are very highly correlated

          1:04:44

          but it’s a very poor place and they had a uh telephone Co-op that was a descendant of an an electrification

          1:04:51

          Co-op from the New Deal that used some state and federal grants to pull fiber

          1:04:56

          to every home including homes in Mountain hallers which they pulled on the back of

          1:05:03

          a mule called Old bub and uh the median income doubled in

          1:05:10

          this County right it it became like a place where people and this was before lockdown this was before uh you know

          1:05:18

          Broadband became so critical to how we operate”

          a year ago
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