Enshittification : why everything suddenly got worse and what to do about it
(2025)

Nonfiction

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NEW 174.9004/DOCTOROW,C

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PUBLISHED
New York : MCD, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2025
EDITION
First edition
DESCRIPTION

x, 338 pages ; 22 cm

ISBN/ISSN
9780374619329, 0374619328 :, 0374619328, 9780374619329
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Introduction -- Part one : The natural history -- Case study : Facebook -- Case study : Amazon -- Case study : iPhone -- Case study : Twitter -- Part two : The pathology -- Part three : The epidemiology -- The end of competition -- The death of competition kills regulation, too -- "With an app" -- It's not wage theft if we do it with an app : Uber's algorithmic wage discrimination -- Reverse-centaurs and chickenization -- Twiddling -- The end of self-help -- The end of labor power -- Tech rights are worker rights : Para and Tuyul apps -- The Google walkouts, tech solidarity, and tech unions -- Rent seeking and technofeudalism -- Part four : The cure -- Antitrust is back, baby -- Antitrust under Trump -- Bringing back regulation -- Privacy first -- The EU's digital markets act and digital services act -- Administrability -- Bringing back self-help -- The strange tale of Beeper Mini -- Repealing the law of "felony contempt of business model" -- Restoring labor -- There's bad news and there's good news -- Conclusion : Is enshittification just capitalism

"Enshittification: It's not just you -- the internet sucks now. It's been enshittified. That was no accident, and it's not gonna fix itself. Here's how we'll disenshittify it so we can have a new, good internet. We are all living through the Enshittocene -- the Great Enshittening -- a time in which the services that matter to us, that we rely on, are being turned into giant piles of shit. It's frustrating. Demoralizing. Even terrifying. The once-glorious internet has degenerated into "platforms" that rose to dominance because they delivered convenient and delightful services efficiently and reliably. But once we were locked in to those services, the tech bosses turned on us, relying on our dependency to keep us using the services even as they got worse and worse. The platform bosses did the same to the companies that had flocked to their services to sell stuff to us. Once we were all locked in -- businesses and users -- the tech companies stripped out all utility, save the bare minimum needed to stave off total collapse. In Enshittification, Cory Doctorow shows us where it comes from: not the iron laws of economics, or the great forces of history, but specific policy choices made by powerful people who ignored every warning about the consequences of those choices. These are choices that can be undone. Enshittification is a Big Tech disassembly manual, a road map for the seizure of the means of computation. It is a diagnosis, and it is a cure" --