• fart_pickle@lemmy.world
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    7 months ago

    Let me save you the time and summarize the blog post - internet got worse, big tech is bad and the author is just ranting how bad it is nowadays. Nothing new, no idea how to fix it, just complaining about the modern world.

    I’m not saying the author is wrong. It’s just I heard this many times before.

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        7 months ago

        I think we have read a different blog post. There was something about Google’s antitrust thingy and that all big tech should be regulated but no straight solution were given.

        Again, I agree withe the thesis but honestly, anyone who’s focused on privacy would tell you the same but in way fewer words.

        BTW, similar issue was raised in The Age of Surveillance Capitalism. Pretty good read.

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          7 months ago

          anyone who’s focused on privacy would tell you the same but in way fewer words.

          Corey Doctorow literally wrote the books on privacy. He coined the term Enshitification. He’s even been portrayed as a guest character in a couple of XKCD comics. Generally he’s someone to listen to on anything security, privacy or tech policy related

    • Melvin_Ferd@lemmy.world
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      7 months ago

      You didn’t read it. Also why is it when someone takes time to address an issue like this, there is guarantee a post like this to dismiss it in favor of basically doing fuck all. Like the implication here is that you’re trying to diminish the effort for what? What’s the reason when you didn’t even read it.

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      7 months ago

      The article proposes restoring competition, regulation, interoperability and tech worker power as response; in case anyone was wondering.

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        7 months ago

        And the solution for world hunger is to distribute food from rich countries into the poor countries. Here, I’ve fixed the famine issue. Do you get my point? It’s easy to say what to do but when it comes to the details, all those preachers fail short in giving the real solution to the real problem. As I said before, this is just a rant about how bad modern world is.

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          7 months ago

          These are problems that require legislative action to fix, which is why he is encouraging the nerds and hackers who will be most affected by tech policy and understand the tech the most to start meeting with their legislators to discuss tech policy as it comes up for votes

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      7 months ago

      The author of this post, Cory Doctorow, literally coined the term “enshittification” in a prior blog post. I think he of all people is allowed to continue talking about the topic as much as he wants.