Cory Doctorow: “La pregunta es cómo crear las herramientas para el internet posnorteamericano que necesitamos” https://www.elsaltodiario.com/internet/entrevista-cory-doctorow-nuevo-libro-mierdificacion-tecnologia-internet#

Creo que tiene puntos muy interesantes, a la vez que hay algo que no me acaba de gustar, pero no sabría decir bien bien qué… Bueno, lo de replicar un Facebook pero en Europa, pues mejor no, o mejor no si eso simplemente significa que quien te espíe y trafique con tua datos sea europeo. Mejor una red social libre, descentralizada… espera, esto no es el #Fediverso? 😜 Lo mismo sobre la tienda de Apple o su sistema de “jaula de oro”, yo quiero software libre y tiendas como #FDroid

Europa ha pasado 20 años aferrándose a dos creencias muy negativas. La primera, que la tecnología estadounidense era una plataforma neutral y tu gobierno podía usarla sin consecuencias. La segunda, que si las plataformas se comportaban “mal”, la respuesta era regularlas

#CoryDoctorow #Enshittification #Mierdificación

RE: https://toot.cafe/@baldur/116307441029006075

This is a good article about Cory Doctorow's weird and self-serving misunderstanding of Audre Lord's famous observation about the master's tools. The author explains that Doctorow takes the line out of context and then tells us that his example of antitrust law "would be a defensible claim if that was the argument Audre Lorde was making in the first place."

In other words she seems to agree with Doctorow that antitrust law is an example of the master's tools dismantling the master's house, or at least not to completely dismiss this claim. But even though Lorde wasn't talking about this kind of tool her analysis still holds, even for antitrust law and other regulatory structures that superficially seem to limit capitalist exploitation.

One of capitalism:s biggest maintenance problems is that their victims inevitably realize what's being done to them and rebel. The ruling classes inevitably respond by moving things around so that the exploitation can continue but in more hidden ways. For instance Anglo-American chattel slavery was not only horrific but obviously visibly horrific. Everyone could see the horror. There was a huge abolitionist movement in Britain and ongoing slave rebellions, including the consequential 1831 Baptist War, which apparently involved around 60K of the 300K enslaved people in Jamaica.[1] Just two years later the Slavery Abolition Act of 1833 took effect.[2] The British government didn't abolish slavery to protect slaves from exploitation but to protect capitalism from short-sighted capitalists who didn't recognize the peril their whole project was in due to popular resistance. The Brits offshored slavery's contributions to their economy to the American south, where it was still viable, at least for a while.

If the very abolition of slavery didn't dismantle the master's house there's no reason to expect that breaking up a monopoly or two is going to destroy capitalism. The ruling class doesn't create laws they can't work around. They wait till popular resistance threatens their exploitative project and then pass laws that silence the resistance but don't actually solve the problem. The Pure Food and Drug Act, all of FDR's social welfare measures, etc. These are not tools with which the master's house can be dismantled. They're tools our masters use to strengthen their house's foundations.

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist_War

[2] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavery_Abolition_Act_1833

#AudreLorde #CoryDoctorow #TheMastersTools #Slavery #Abolition #AntitrustLaw #Capitalism

RE: https://mastodon.online/@tarakiyee/116307231877342459

This essay, all day, every day.

Things you can trust Cory Doctorow about:
Audre Lorde ❌
Purity culture ❌
Good reasons to use LLMs ❌

My proofs:
https://pluralistic.net/2026/02/19/now-we-are-six/
https://pluralistic.net/2025/01/20/capitalist-unrealism/

#enshittification
#pluralistic
#corydoctorow

‘We can have a better digital world’: A global campaign targets ‘enshitification’ of social media.

A platform becomes ‘enshitified’ when it introduces paid features or subscriptions that makes a user’s experience worse than it used to be.

A viral video by the Norwegian Consumer Council (NCC) is drawing attention to a growing concern about the decline in quality across popular digital platforms.

https://mediafaro.org/article/20260328-we-can-have-a-better-digital-world-a-global-campaign-targets-enshitification-of-social-media?mf_channel=mastodon&action=forward

#SocialMedia #Tech #Enshitification #Norway #CoryDoctorow #Platforms

"So it’s very important, it needs to be nice at first. But then... Yes. Oh, yes."

The Norwegian Consumer Council's "Day in the life of an enshittificator" infomercial might be the best thing we've ever seen.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T4Upf_B9RLQ

#Enshittification #Internet #Technology #CoryDoctorow

Cory Doctorow: Interoperability Can Save the Open Web

https://spectrum.ieee.org/doctorow-interoperability

#HackerNews #CoryDoctorow #Interoperability #OpenWeb #TechForGood #DigitalRights

Cory Doctorow started bOINGbOING, I think (?). He certainly had a key part in running it for years. I wonder if he's still connected. The blog is shilling AI products, right now.

https://boingboing.net/2026/03/24/supercharge-your-business-with-1min-ai-for-just-85.html

#ai #capitalism #corydoctorow

A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet

https://tube.tchncs.de/w/puqWy2Z8pyPB5C4kG79c2E