The Internet Con
Subtitle: How to Seize the Means of Computation
Publisher: Verso Books
Published: 2023
Place of publication: London, England; New York, USA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 192
ISBN-13: 9781804291245
Copyright date: 2023
First sentence: This is a book for people who want to destroy Big Tech.
Table of contents: label: Introduction
title: 1; label: PART I. SEIZE THE MEANS OF COMPUTATION; label: 1. How Big Tech Got Big
title: 7; label: 2. Network Effects vs Switching Costs
title: 26; label: 3. Copyright Wars, Cybercrime, Terrorism, Human Trafficking and Other Gifts to Big Tech
title: 38; label: 4. Interop: From Computer Science to the Real World
title: 56; label: 5. Standards and Mandates: What's Behind the Shield of Boringness?
title: 74; label: 6. Adversarial Interop: Guerrilla Warfare and Reverse Engineering
title: 83; label: 7. Jam Tomorrow: Life after We Seize the Means of Computation
title: 96; label: 8. Jam Today: How We'll Get There
title: 120; label: PART II. WHAT ABOUT; label: 9. What about Privacy?
title: 139; label: 10. What about Harassment?
title: 143; label: 11. What about Algorithmic Radicalization?
title: 145; label: 12. What about Child Sexual Abuse Material, Nonconsensual Pornography and Terrorist Materials?
title: 152; label: 13. What about Warranties?
title: 159; label: 14. What about Poor Countries?
title: 160; label: 15. What about Blockchain?
title: 165; label: Further Reading, Listening and Viewing
title: 171; label: Index
title: 174