"Enshittification": Cory Doctorow on Why Big Tech Sucks, Keeps Getting Worse & What to Do About It
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Corey Doctorów Explains the Cycle of Platform 'Bleepification' and Its Political Roots
Understand the three-stage pattern causing online platforms like Facebook and Google to degrade, and identify the political and regulatory failures that remove the necessary discipline keeping Big Tech accountable.
Short Summary
- Companies systematically ruin platforms over time by prioritizing shareholder profit over user experience.
- This decay cycle is enabled by anti-competitive mergers and the neutering of regulatory/worker power.
- Solutions require reintroducing external discipline through policy changes like mandatory data portability.
This discussion unpacks Corey Doctorów’s viral concept describing platform atrophy, where services intentionally worsen quality after locking users in. We examine canonical examples like Facebook and Google, detailing how internal conflicts demonstrate a profit motive overriding product quality. Finally, Doctorów outlines the policy environment that rewards this unchecked behavior and suggests concrete ways consumers can fight back.
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Top Comments (10)
America doesn’t protect its citizens. It doesn’t protect them from predatory billionaires.
We are witnessing the comsequences of limitless, unchecked public and corporate corruption. The people are living those consequences now.
I’ll get this book either from my library or a bookstore. Not Amazon!
YouTube is no exception
I'm gonna have to read this. That little rant about Zuck rising out of a sarcophagus was pretty impressive lol
His sentences are PACKED with information and wit *Since commenting this I've read his book and can't recommend it enough! Hope it gets translated so I can gift it to family and friends who don't speak english.
The amount of money, resources, and energy being wasted on building data centres that just 'talk' to other data centres with no tangible output is pure INSANITY.
Google had a motto of "Don't be Evil" at one time. ROFL!
Everyone should view this.
In Australia, when social media goes down the drain, it goes counter clockwise