The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation

Review

Good book on how user control has been eroding over time resulting in walled gardens and large corporations with monopolistic tendencies. The first parts explore how we got here as well as lay out how adversarial interop may be a solution out of it. The last sections present and break down arguments against interoperability. Overall though it's a team sport that will take users and their representatives working together to take back user soverignty.

Notes

• Additional resources
  • Talks and presentations
    • "After Selfishness—Wikipedia 1, Hobbes 0 at Half Time", Yochai Benkler
    • "What Would Open Source Look Like if It Were Healthy?", Sumana Harihareswara
    • "How Markets Co-opted Free Software’s Most Powerful Weapon", Benjamin Mako Hill
  • Podcasts
    • Trashfuture
    • Tech Will Not Save Us
    • This Machine Kills
  • Books & Articles
    • “Amazon’s Antitrust Paradox”, Lina Khan
    • "Silicon Values: The Future of Free Speech Under Surveillance Capitalism", Jillian C. York
    • "Consent of the Networked: The Worldwide Struggle for Internet Freedom", Rebecca MacKinnon
    • "Subprime Attention Crisis: Advertising and the Time Bomb at the Heart of the Internet", Tim Hwang
      • Interview
    • "The Hardware Hacker: Adventures in Making and Breaking Hardware", Andrew "Bunnie" Huang
    • "The Right to Repair: Reclaiming the Things We Own", Aaron Perzanowski
    • "Broad Band: The Untold Story of the Women Who Made the Internet", Claire L. Evans