Pushing back on unconstrained capitalism (Interview)
from The Changelog: Software Development, Open Source
This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about how we can get back to that "new good internet." Cory's new book The Internet Con offers a lens to this conversation about disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, limits on corporate tweaking, regulating unconstrained capitalism, and all the ways enshittification is enabled. Cory also shares his experience recording his own audio book under the direction of Gabrielle de Cuir at Skyboat Media, and what's to come from his next Science Fiction book The Lost Cause.
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- 0:00 This week on The Changelog
- 1:20 Sponsor: Socket
- 4:44 Start the show!
- 6:30 Bypassing DRM will cost you
- 7:54 Amazon has TONS of power
- 9:20 I won't allow my work to have DRM
- 11:17 So...I Kickstarter my audiobooks
- 12:37 Fighting the monopolies
- 13:48 Pumping out books
- 14:28 The Lost Cause
- 18:14 Is this a blueprint or a dream?
- 25:55 Sponsor: Statsig
- 29:20 Ads as notifications
- 31:31 The Internet Con
- 47:58 Unconstrained capitalistic needs
- 51:03 Let's talk anti-trust
- 58:50 Taking aim at monopolies
- 1:05:33 Sponsor: Changelog News
- 1:06:46 Capitalism and free markets
- 1:17:26 Was Jeff Bezos born lucky?
- 1:22:23 Isn't this the dream though?
- 1:27:01 The forces that constrain firms
- 1:31:59 Wrapping up
- 1:32:46 What we've been up to
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