Last year I spoke with Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin about their new book, Chokepoint Capitalism. It’s a book about artists and technology and platforms, and how different kinds of distribution and creations tools create chokepoints for different companies to capture value that might otherwise go to artists and creators.. In other words, it’s a lot of Decoder stuff.As we were prepping this episode, the Decoder team realized it previews a lot of things we’re going to talk about in 2023: antitrust law. Ticketmaster. Spotify and the future of the music industry. Amazon and the book industry. And, of course, being a creator trying to make a living on all these platforms.This episode is longer than normal, but it was a really great conversation and I'm glad we are sharing it with you.Links:What is Mixer, Ninja’s new exclusive streaming home?Ninja returns to TwitchThis was Sony Music's contract with SpotifyTranscript:https://www.theverge.com/e/23311918Credits:Decoder is a production of The Verge and part of the Vox Media Podcast Network.It was produced by Creighton DeSimone and Jackie McDermott and it was edited by Callie Wright. The Decoder music is by Breakmaster Cylinder. Our Editorial Director is Brooke Minters and our Executive Director is Eleanor Donovan. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cory Doctorow, a prominent writer and digital rights activist, joins forces with Brian Merchant, an insightful author on tech's societal implications. They delve into how monopolistic practices have stifled innovation in the tech industry today. The duo connects the historical Luddite fight for worker rights to modern tech critiques, discussing the ethical dilemmas of generative AI and its detrimental effects on artists. They advocate for grassroots movements and effective regulation to reclaim user agency and combat corporate dominance.

Cory Doctorow discusses the decline of the internet, antitrust practices, and solutions for a better web. They explore privacy laws, interoperability, and the 'right-to-exit.' The episode also touches on industries immune to 'enshittification.'

Journalist and author of Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back , Cory Doctorow shares his latest thoughts on the ways the economy and creativity are being hacked by the perpetrators of chokepoint capitalism.🎙 In his monologue, Rushkoff discusses how Elon Musk may have undermined both authoritarianism and his hopes for a techno-monarchy.📰 You can read Rushkoff’s monologue, How Elon Upstaged Trump, on Medium.📖 Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back is now available.🌍 Team Human is made possible thanks to the generous support of our listeners on Patreon. Your support will unlock access to our Discord community and exclusive bonus content from the Rushkoff archive on our Team Human Team Feed. Get bonus content on Patreon Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

Award-winning author and EFF Special Advisor Cory Doctorow discusses 'enshittification,' where platforms treat users like commodities. Topics include the misuse of intellectual property laws, tech sector consolidation, recent antitrust actions, tech workers' rights, and the importance of activism in advocating for a better internet.

Writer-activist Cory Doctorow discusses the rise of Rentier and Monopoly Capitalism in the tech sector. Topics include disassembling Big Tech, creative labor markets and monopolies, and destroying surveillance capitalism. They explore the concept of 'enshitification' and the need for collective action through unionization to address big tech's problems.

This week we’re talking with Cory Doctorow (this episode contains explicit language) about his newest book Chokepoint Capitalism, which he co-autored with Rebecca Giblin. Chokepoint Capitalism is about how big tech and big content have captured creative labor markets and the ways we can win them back. We talk about chokepoints creating chickenized reverse-centaurs, paying for your robot boss (think Uber, Doordash, Amazon Drivers), the chickenization that’s climbing the priviledge gradient from the most blue collar workers to the middle-class. There are chokepoints in open source, AI generative art, interoperability, music, film, and media. To quote Cory, “We’re all fighting the same fight.” Join the discussionChangelog++ members save 8 minutes on this episode because they made the ads disappear. Join today!Sponsors:DevCycle – Build better software with DevCycle. Feature flags, without the tech debt. DevCycle is a Feature Flag Management platform designed to help you build maintainable code at scale. Postman – Build APIs together — More than 20 million developers use Postman for building and using APIs. Postman simplifies each step of the API lifecycle and streamlines collaboration so you can create better APIs—faster. Square – Develop on the platform that sellers trust. There is a massive opportunity for developers to support Square sellers by building apps for today’s business needs. Learn more at developer.squareup.com to dive into the docs, APIs, SDKs and to create your Square Developer account — tell them Changelog sent you. Typesense – Lightning fast, globally distributed Search-as-a-Service that runs in memory. You literally can’t get any faster! Featuring:Cory Doctorow – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, WebsiteAdam Stacoviak – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedIn, WebsiteJerod Santo – Mastodon, Twitter, GitHub, LinkedInShow Notes: Buy Cory’s books Gig Work Is the Opposite of Steampunk TikTok’s Enshittification Rural towns and poor urban neighborhoods are being devoured by dollar stores What is Chokepoint Capitalism? Revenge of the Chickenized Reverse-Centaurs Cory on Twitter explaining “chickenization “ Red Team Blues: Another audiobook that Amazon won’t sell The Memex Method Changelog Interviews #221: How we got here with Cory Doctorow Something missing or broken? PRs welcome!

In this episode of our Making Sense of #Crypto and #Web3 series, Rufus Pollock is joined by activist, journalist and author Cory Doctorow. Cory outlines the problems he sees within the web3 space; economic, technological, and ethical.You can learn more about Cory and his work here:https://pluralistic.net/https://doctorow.medium.com/To learn more about our Making Sense of Web3 series visit https://web3.lifeitself.us/ This is a public episode. If you would like to discuss this with other subscribers or get access to bonus episodes, visit news.lifeitself.org

Cory Doctorow, a science fiction author and tech activist, Brian McCullough, a tech journalist and podcaster, and Jason Hiner, ZDNet's editor-in-chief, engage in a fascinating discussion. They explore Google's court victory regarding third-party Android stores and its implications for developers. The conversation delves into internet broadband data caps and the FCC's investigation. They also tackle the ethics of societal tech changes like Elon Musk's alterations to X, raising concerns over user privacy and the shifting landscape of social media dynamics.

Cory Doctorow discusses disenshittifying the internet through anti-trust laws, corporate limits, and regulating capitalism. They also talk about the issues with DRM in audiobooks, advertisements disguised as notifications, the concentration of power in big tech companies, influence of defense contractors, and the origins of capitalism and rent.

There’s a growing sense that the internet – or at least the big sites we use all the time like Amazon, Facebook and Google – is becoming worse. Instead of seeing what’s best for us at the top of our searches, we’re seeing more and more of what makes the tech giant the most money pop to the top. Cory Doctorow calls it ‘Enshittification.’ He explains how it works. For transcripts of this series, please visit: https://www.cbc.ca/radio/frontburner/transcripts

Read an excerpt from the book here: https://www.promarket.org/2022/10/03/why-streaming-doesnt-pay/

Remember when Uber, the mobile phone taxi-hailing app, was going to revolutionize transportation, transform cities, and lead us to our glorious robot-car future? That wasn’t so long ago. So, what happened? Where did it all go? Cory Doctorow has some ideas. A prolific non-fiction author, sci-fi novelist, and technology activist Doctorow has been a keen observer and critic of Uber for years now. “Uber,” Doctorow writes, “is a bezzle. Every bezzle ends. And Uber’s time is up.” Plus: Reality has a well known anti-car bias.    ***This episode is sponsored by Cleverhood.*** Support The War on Cars on Patreon for access to ad-free bonus content. SHOW NOTES: End of the Line for Uber by Cory Doctorow Pluralistic.net: Daily Links and more from Cory Doctorow You can find two of Cory’s most recent books, “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” and “Attack Surface” at our page on Bookshop.org. If you want to go deep, transportation analyst Hubert Horan’s many articles dissecting Uber can be found here. Follow Cory Doctorow on Twitter.  Get official War on Cars merch at our store. Follow and review us on iTunes. It helps people find us! Twitter: @TheWarOnCarsInstagram: @thewaroncars TheWarOnCars.org

Like so many technological innovations, the internet is something that burst on the scene and pervaded human life well before we had time to sit down and think through how something like that should work and how it should be organized. In multiple ways — as a blogger, activist, fiction writer, and more — Cory Doctorow has been thinking about how the internet is affecting our lives since the very beginning. He has been especially interested in legal issues surrounding copyright, publishing, and free speech, and recently his attention has turned to broader economic concerns. We talk about how the internet has become largely organized through just a small number of quasi-monopolistic portals, how this affects the ways in which we gather information and decide whether to trust outside sources, and where things might go from here.Cory Doctorow is a science fiction writer, activist, journalist, and blogger. He is a co-editor of the website Boing Boing, and works as a special consultant for the Electronic Frontier Foundation. He is the author of the nonfiction book Information Doesn’t Want to Be Free as well as science-fiction works such as Walkaway and Radicalized. He has been awarded an honorary doctorate from the Open University, where he is also a Visiting Professor, as well as being an MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science.Web siteBoing BoingPodcastWikipediaAmazon.com author pageTwitterElectronic Frontier FoundationSee Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.

Cory Doctorow discusses his book on destroying Big Tech instead of fixing it, the consolidation of power in the tech industry, the challenges of enforcing antitrust laws, the potential unionization of the tech sector, the evolving relationship between technology and intellectual property, and the complexities of copyright infringement and hosting responsibility on the internet.

Big Tech locked us into their systems by making their platforms hard to leave by design. The impossibility of staying connected to people on their platforms after you delete your account has nothing to do with technological limitations: it's an intentional business strategy.In The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Verso, 2023), Cory Doctorow explains how to seize the means of computation, by forcing Silicon Valley to do the thing it fears most: interoperate. Interoperability will tear down the walls between technologies, allowing users leave platforms, remix their media, and reconfigure their devices without corporate permission.This book comes out September 5, 2023. See seizethemeansofcomputation.org for book details.Note: Cory mentioned that the book website is seizethemeansofcommunication.org it is actually seizethemeansofcomputation.org.Jake Chanenson is a computer science Ph.D. student at the University of Chicago. Broadly, Jake is interested in topics relating to HCI, privacy, and tech policy. Jake’s work has been published in top venues such as ACM’s CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoicesSupport our show by becoming a premium member! https://newbooksnetwork.supportingcast.fm/critical-theory

Cory Doctorow discusses 'Enshittification' and online platform decay. Exploring challenges faced by tech giants, antitrust measures, and copyright laws. Impact on consumer autonomy and upcoming author interview. Includes reflections, upcoming events, and a demon-themed office hours.

Cory Doctorow, Canadian sci-fi author and digital rights activist, discusses the concept of 'enshittification' in platform capitalism. He explores how platforms like Amazon, Facebook, and Uber exploit users and create barriers to exit. Doctorow highlights the need for regulation, breaking up monopolies, and empowering users. He also discusses the impact of cheap capital on platform growth and the urgent need to reclaim power in the digital world.

Cory Doctorow and Adam Conover discuss how chokepoint capitalism impacts creative workers, monopolistic practices by big companies like YouTube and Amazon, challenges faced by content creators, and the need for intervention to prevent monopolies in various industries.

Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.Send us your questions! Call 855-51-PIVOT or go to nymag.com/pivot. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Cory Doctorow, author of The Internet Con, talks about ens**tification, the rapid changes in social media platforms, the evolution of Facebook, its impact on users and businesses, and the future of the internet. He also discusses the need for systemic solutions to fix the problems of accumulated capital and market concentration.

Cory Doctorow, celebrated author and digital rights activist, sheds light on "inshittification," where online services deteriorate due to corporate greed. He critiques tech giants like Amazon and TikTok for prioritizing profit over user experience. Doctorow advocates for stronger antitrust laws, new privacy legislation, and the empowerment of tech workers through unions. He envisions a 'new good internet' that champions user agency and promotes equitable access, urging collective action for a decentralized digital landscape.

Anya Schiffrin and Cory Doctorow discuss the battle between news organizations and tech companies, challenges in the media industry, funding models for journalism, Google's impact on news revenue, and the power dynamics between big tech and journalism for safeguarding democracy.

Cory Doctorow discusses political themes in 'Party Discipline' novella. Hosts explore distribution of shopping carts to homeless, touching on global elections and conspiracy theories. Graduates encounter homeless former student, reflect on life decisions and societal transformation. Sponsored ads throughout the podcast.

Author Cory Doctorow discusses societal issues like housing, rebellion, and the significance of products in a near-future novella. Topics include AI-generated content, dance battles with AI software, and camaraderie while building shopping carts for the homeless.

Author Cory Doctorow discusses themes of resistance and surveillance in 'Party Discipline'. The podcast explores surveillance tactics, teenage rebellion, and the impact of technology on personal freedom. Intriguing chapters feature tense encounters, undercover Communists, and subculture influence. Teenagers navigate surveillance, laws, and plan secret parties while discussing societal challenges and the importance of collective action.

Author Cory Doctorow discusses his novella 'Party Discipline' exploring tech, surveillance, and teenage rebellion. Topics include near-future dystopian world, high school challenges, factory unionizing, societal impact of collaboration, and school lockdown chaos.

Tech activist Cory Doctorow discusses the impact of big tech on consumers, exploring abusive behaviors, monopolistic tactics, and lack of competition. The conversation delves into negative repercussions for society, unchecked power stifling innovation, and manipulation of search results. It also covers the evolution of antitrust laws, resistance to enforcement, reputation management manipulation, digital interoperability, and consumer empowerment through financial transparency.

Author Cory Doctorow discusses his new book 'The Bezzle' and the financial exploitation within the private prison system. The narrative explores schemes involving bison, inmate treatment changes, costly tablets, and the manipulation of social capital in fraud schemes. The episode sheds light on profit-motivated injustices in society and the impact of tech scams on the American dream.

Cory Doctorow discusses 'enshittification' in the music industry caused by monopolistic platforms. He advocates for better copyright laws. Exclusive audiobook extract from Cory's new novel included. Insights on labor rights, sampling, and copyright in music. Exploring the dangers of platform manipulation and AI advancements. Personal anecdotes about Talking Heads and an Afrobeat cover album. A battle for rights in the music industry recounted.

Author and blogger Cory Doctorow discusses 'enshittification' and why the modern world seems to be deteriorating. They compare modern times to the Middle Ages and explore the impact of technology on society. They also touch on bad French translations and the evolution of social media platforms.

Renowned science fiction author, journalist, and advocate for a free and open internet, Cory Doctorow, discusses digital publishing, challenges of decentralization, and the role of adversarial interoperability in shaping the future of the web in this engaging podcast.

Warren Mosler, MMT founder, and Cory Doctorow, author, discuss Doctorow's latest book set in a post-Green New Deal future. They delve into Modern Monetary Theory (MMT) and the job guarantee, explaining its purpose and framing it for different audiences. They also share humorous encounters with Grover Norquist and explore the power of narratives in shaping political change. The conversation touches on topics like wealth redistribution, societal collapse, the influence of science fiction, and economic justice.

Cory Doctorow, author, discusses improving the internet, limiting capitalism. Topics include: disenshittifying the internet, anti-trust laws, unconstrained capitalism in tech, DRM issues on Audible, push notifications as ads, government procurement in tech, capitalism's connection to the free market, decision-making constraints.

Cory Doctorow, a journalist and sci-fi author, discusses Chokepoint Capitalism with Marina Goribis. They explore challenges in the creative labor market, copyright issues in the digital era, the impact of exclusive rights on creative workers, and the need for systemic solutions to prevent labor exploitation.

Rachelle Hampton is joined by journalist and author Cory Doctorow to discuss the 'in shitification' of platforms like TikTok, the declining quality of the internet, and the challenges faced by content creators. They also explore Amazon's tactics to control the surplus and the constant rule changes within social media algorithms.

Novelist Cory Doctorow and intellectual property expert Rebecca Giblin discuss their book "Chokepoint Capitalism," exploring tensions between extractive corporations and creative laborers. They offer solutions to fight back against the devaluation of creativity caused by monopolies. The speakers highlight the significance of power in economic analysis and the impact of large corporations on wages and content creation. They emphasize the need for countervailing power in the economy and stronger antitrust measures.

Award-winning science fiction author, journalist, and technology activist Cory Doctorow discusses copyright law, the challenges faced by individuals in cultural activities, the role of activism, the concept of openness in software and society, designing for long-term change, and the importance of Creative Commons licenses.

Kara, Scott and a handful of Friends of Pivot make some predictions about what 2022 has in store for the Metaverse, China, Apple and more.In this episode, we hear predictions from Co-Anchor of CNBC’s Squawk Box Andrew Ross Sorkin, LightShed Partners’ Rich Greenfield, Senator Amy Klobuchar, author Cory Doctorow, WSJ Senior Personal Technology Columnist Joanna Stern, NBC News Senior Business correspondent Stephanie Ruhle, NYU Professor Aswath Damodaran, author Sheera Frenkel, and actor George Hahn.Send us your Listener Mail questions through our site, nymag.com/pivot and use Yappa to leave a video or audio message. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

Newly elected Republican representative Nancy Mace, activist Cory Doctorow, and author Professor Shoshana Zuboff discuss the implications of Trump's social media ban, corporate actions against Parler, tech monopolies' impact on free speech, social media silencing, and power imbalances in information civilization.

Cory Doctorow, award-winning author, technologist, and founder, joins Azeem Azhar to explore the power of big tech monopolies and how a future wave of antitrust lawsuits could unleash innovation across the sector. They also discuss: How antitrust litigation, even if it fails, has a powerful effect on corporate behavior. Why interoperability is key to a competitive marketplace. How software patents have been weaponized to protect monopolies. Further resources: “Regulating Big Tech makes them stronger, they need competition instead” (The Economist, 2019) “Google lawsuit: the opening salvo in a battle to restrain Big Tech” (Financial Times, 2020) “How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism” (Online book by Cory Doctorow 2020) “How US Lawmakers Plan to Tackle Big Tech” (Exponential View – subscribers only, 2020) @doctorow @azeem @ExponentialView