Cory Doctorow

11:27 am on April 6, 2023 · Cory Doctorow (5), enshittification (1), gigabit libaries (2)

WEBCAST APR 6 – Libraries in Response: Twiddling, Enshittification and the Latter-Day Robber Barons of the Web

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ISOC-LIVE

ISOC-LIVEOn Thursday April 6 2023 at 08:00 PDT (15:00 UTC) Gigabit Libraries Network presents Session 73 in its Libraries in Response series, with the theme ‘Twiddling, Enshittification and the Latter-Day Robber Barons of the Web‘

How did the internet turn into five giant websites filled with screenshots of the other four? Why does the web just suuuuuuck now?

It’s down to three interlocking pathologies: first, unconstrained anticompetitive mergers; two, “IP” laws prohibiting platform users from seizing the means of computation; and three, the ease with which platform operators can “twiddle the knobs” to sink hooks in both end-users and business-users, then reel them in and harvest all the value in the system for their shareholders.

SPEAKER
Cory Doctorow, science fiction author, activist and journalist.

PANEL
Stephen Wyber, Director, Policy and Advocacy, International Federation of Library Associations and Institutions
Jonathan Hernandez Perez, Researcher, Library and Information Institute (IIBI), National Autonomous University of Mexico

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SIMULCASTS
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ARCHIVE
https://archive.org/details/robberbarons

2:38 pm on June 2, 2015 · Cory Doctorow (5)

SATURDAY: Cory @Doctorow – Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free @NYAMNYC @NYLA_1890

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Information doesn't want to be free..

Information doesn't want to be free..On Saturday June 6 2015 at 1pm the New York Library Association will host Cory Doctorow presenting his new book Information Doesn’t Want to be Free at the New York Academy of Medicine in NYC. From the blurb:

Information doesn’t want to be free…but people do.

We live in a world made of networked computers, but still our lawmakers treat the Internet as though it was a better video on demand system or a pornography distribution system or a jihadi recruiting system—instead of the nervous system of the 21st century.

How can libraries and activists strike alliances to demand that information policy be afforded the gravitas it’s due? And how can creators—who, after all, should always be on the side of free expression, privacy and freedom—be recruited to the fight?

Admission is free, but an RSVP is required.

What: Cory Doctorow – Information Doesn’t Want to be Free
Where: The New York Academy of Medicine, 1216 Fifth Avenue (at 103rd Street) NYC
When: Saturday June 6 2015 1pm-3pm
Registration: http://support.nyam.org/site/Calendar?id=106181&view=Detail (free)

6:02 am on October 8, 2011 · Cory Doctorow (5), lynn st amour (11), netfreedom (8), wipo (2)

Video: Lynn St. Amour at Global Innovation Index 2011 @Internet Society #netfreedom

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In June 2011 Internet Society President Lynn St Amour participated in a panel at the launch of the Global Innovation Index 2011. Since yesterday the video has been widely viewed after Cory Doctorow posted a link on Boing Boing pointing out that, at 49 mins in,  fellow panelist Francis Gurry, the Director General of the UN’s World Intellectual Property Organization (WIPO) asserted the world would have been better off if the World Wide Web had been patented and licensed. Lynn is on at 14:38 and 42:25.

 

2:45 am on August 13, 2011 · Al Gore (2), Cory Doctorow (5), Mexico (6), tim berners lee (11), Vint Cerf (106)

Video: Al Gore, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee at Campus Party México 2011 #CPMX3

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Al Gore, Vint Cerf, Tim Berners-Lee, and Cory Doctorow were among participants at Campus Party México 2011, held in the Expo Bancomer in Mexico City from July 24-28 2011. Video is below: