Cory Doctorow takes on Big Tech's worst impulses in 'The Internet Con' – San Bernardino Sun
'The Internet Con' addresses how and why Big Tech exists and the kind of issues it poses for virtually everyone.
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'The Internet Con' addresses how and why Big Tech exists and the kind of issues it poses for virtually everyone.
'The Internet Con' addresses how and why Big Tech exists and the kind of issues it poses for virtually everyone.
Cory Doctorow talks about everything that threatens to make the internet “a toxic waste dump”—and the ways you can regain control of your choices online.
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As a leading blogger in the pre-Substack era, novelist and public-interest technologist Cory Doctorow often warned that Big Tech was rendering of cyberspace a polluted, dystopian, crassly commercial and often hostile world of limited options. Facebook, Instagram and other walled fiefdoms of surveillance capitalism distract discourse with scrolls of targeted ads and trending video reels. It’s gotten to where anti-Big Tech initiatives enjoy bipartisan backing in an otherwise teetering U.S. democracy.