Cory Doctorow

The Internet Con

How to Seize the Means of Computation

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

A detailed disassembly manual for people who want to dismantle Big Tech

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Verso Books
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 17. September 2024
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 197mm x 127mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 160g
• ISBN-13: 9781804292143
• ISBN-10: 1804292141
• Artikelnr.: 69644551

Autorenporträt

Cory Doctorow

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
PART I. SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION
1. How Big Tech Got Big
2. Network Effects vs. Switching Costs
3. Copyright Wars, Cybercrime, Terrorism, Human Trafficking and Other Gifts
to Big Tech
4. Interop: From Computer Science to the Real World
5. Standards and Mandates: What’s Behind the Shield of Boringness?
6. Adversarial Interop: Guerrilla Warfare and Reverse Engineering
7. Jam Tomorrow: Life after We Seize the Means of Computation
8. Jam Today: How We’ll Get There
PART II. WHAT ABOUT
9. What about Privacy?
10. What about Harassment?
11. What about Algorithmic Radicalization?
12. What about Child Sexual Abuse Material, Nonconsensual Pornography and
Terrorist Materials?
13. What about Warranties?
14. What about Poor Countries?
15. What about Blockchain?
Further Reading, Listening and Viewing
Index