Name: Keynote: Enshittification Was a Choice - Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Activist and Journalist
Start: 2024-10-22T10:30:00-0400
End: 2024-10-22T10:45:00-0400

October 22-23, 2024 | Atlanta, Georgia USA
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Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:30am - 10:45am EDT

Salon 1

The internet's enshittification - its consolidation into gigantic platforms that trapped and then tormented end users and business customers alike - was a choice. Specific policies transformed the old, good internet into the enshitternet of "five giant websites filled with screenshots of the other four." We can build a new, good internet, but it's going to take more than good tech: it will require good *policies*.

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Cory Doctorow

Science Fiction Author, Activist and Journalist, EFF

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of many books, most recently THE BEZZLE (a followup to RED TEAM BLUES) and THE LOST CAUSE, a solarpunk science fiction novel of hope amidst the climate emergency. His most recent nonfiction... Read More →

Tuesday October 22, 2024 10:30am - 10:45am EDT
Salon 1

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