By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026There've always been techies who understood the link between tech and public wellbeing and who committed themselves to working for the betterment of societ. 4/ 31214
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026But these numbers swelled as Big Tech companies saturated their markets and switched from growing by making products people like, to locking in their users and then extracting more value from their technological prisoners: pluralistic.net/2024/04/24/n... 5/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The specific process by which Google enshittified its search (24 Apr 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 11116
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 08/08/2026It was the era when (in the words of Facebook's Jeff Hammerbacher) "The best minds of my generation are thinking about how to make people click ads": quoteinvestigator.com/2017/06/12/c... 6/quoteinvestigator.comQuote Origin: The Best Minds of My Generation Are Thinking About How To Make People Click Ads – Quote Investigator® 116620
