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Inside: Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/10/sof…

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Today (May 10), I'm in #VANCOUVER for a keynote at the #OSSummit:

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And a book event tonight at #HeritageHall:

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Tomorrow (May 11), I'm in #CALGARY for @WordfestTweets:

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Two principles to protect internet users from decaying platforms: Don't just try to make platforms better - make them less important.



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Hey look at this

* RIP #Metaverse businessinsider.com/metaverse-dead… (h/t Metafilter)

* The Case for Judge @superwuster prospect.org/justice/2023-0…

* The UK Finally Published its Competition Bill. Was it Worth the Wait? techpolicy.press/the-uk-finally…

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#15yrsago SF fanzines prefigured blogs: #RogerEbert web.archive.org/web/2008050100…

#10yrsago Breathtaking ATM hack nets $45M in hours arstechnica.com/information-te…

#10yrsago Porno #CopyrightTroll to Georgia judge: “Ignore Cal judge! They have gay marriage!” techdirt.com/2013/05/09/pre…

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#10yrsago State Department orders removal of #DefenseDistributed’s printable gun designs forbes.com/sites/andygree…

#10yrsago Bake a Mean Spirited Censorship Pie with @EFF eff.org/deeplinks/2013…

#10yrsago #Warcraft numbers plummet; 14% drop in Q1/13 web.archive.org/web/2013060810…

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#10yrsago Forcing your employees to do dumb #Scientology exercises creates a “hostile work environment” eeoc.gov/newsroom/eeoc-…

#10yrsago Anatomy of a state-sponsored phishing attack: how the #SyrianElectronicArmy hacked @TheOnion theonion.github.io/blog/2013/05/0…

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#5yrsago Amazon has a real fake review problem buzzfeed.com/nicolenguyen/a…

#5yrsago Victory! Fourth Circuit rules that border officials can’t subject electronic devices to suspicionless forensic searches eff.org/deeplinks/2018…

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#5yrsago Trump’s Labor Department is planning a rollback of teen labor laws, allowing kids to work in “hazardous” jobs news.bloomberglaw.com/daily-labor-re…

#5yrsago #GrenfellTowers leaks: Tory politicians rejected fireproof cladding proposal for a 5.7% savings theguardian.com/uk-news/2018/m…

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#5yrsago Chinese law professor: #AI will end capitalism washingtonpost.com/news/theworldp…

#5yrsago Senators will be forced to vote on @AjitPai’s decision to kill #NetNeutrality theverge.com/2018/5/9/17333…

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Yesterday's threads: KPMG audits the nursing homes it advises on how to beat audits; and more!



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My latest novel is Red Team Blues, available wherever books are sold!

Signed copies at @DarkDel:

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My latest nonfiction book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.

chokepointcapitalism.com

Signed copies available from @BookSoup:

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @BeaconPressBks et al) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues event with @christreilly (#Nottingham), 5/30
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* @uclcs Peter Kirstein Lecture, 6/1 (#London):
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* @CymeraF, 6/3 (#Edinburgh)
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):

* Red Team Blues with @Marthalanefox at the @bl, 6/5 (#London):
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* @republica keynote, 6/7 (#Berlin)
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Recent appearances:

* @MarkTLive


* Enshittification Part 1: Why Every Platform Goes Bad (@onthemedia)
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* Author Talk: Cory Doctorow and @Annaleen in Conversation/@SFPublicLibrary


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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: 'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes'; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2023/05/11/ugl…

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Tonight (May 11) at 7PM, I'm in #CALGARY for @WordfestTweets with my novel *Red Team Blues*; I'll be hosted by Peter Hemminger at the Memorial Park Library, 2nd Floor.

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'We buy ugly houses' is code for 'we steal vulnerable peoples' homes': The pervasive, predatory sleaze of Homevestor, "the #1 homebuyer in the USA."



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Home ownership is the American dream: not only do you get a place to live, free from the high-handed dictates of a landlord, but you also get an asset that appreciates, building intergenerational wealth while you sleep - literally.

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Of course, you can't have it both ways. If your house is an asset you use to cover falling wages, rising health care costs, spiraling college tuition and paper-thin support for eldercare, then it can't be a place you live.

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May 10
Internet platforms have reached end-stage enshittification, where they claw back the goodies they once used to lure in end-users and business customers, trying to walk a tightrope in which there's just enough value left to keep you locked in, but no more. It's ugly out there.

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When the platforms took off - using a mix of predatory pricing, catch-and-kill acquisitions and anti-competitive mergers - they seemed unstoppable. Mark Zuckerberg became the unelected social media czar-for-life for billions of users.

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