Cory DoctorowJul 31, 2023

My next book is *The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation*: it's a #BigTech disassembly manual that explains how to disenshittify the web and bring back the old good internet. The hardcover comes from Verso on Sept 5, but the #audiobook comes from me - because Amazon refuses to sell my audio:

https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/doctorow/the-internet-con-how-to-seize-the-means-of-computation

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If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/07/31/seize-the-means-of-computation/#the-internet-con

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Pluralistic: Kickstarting a book to end enshittification, because Amazon will not carry it (31 July 2023) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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@pluralistic DRM is The Enclosure of the digital age. The eighteenth century is happening again in a lot of ways, but now digital.
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