Enshittification: it’s not just you—the internet sucks now.
Join Cory Doctorow at an upcoming event where he'll explain why this is happening and how we can work together to disenshittify it.
- London: Idler Festival, Jul 11 - Find out more
- Edinburgh International Book Festival with Jimmy Wales, Aug 17 - Find out more
- For more events, check out Cory's page here
Watch the Interview
Cory Doctorow explains "enshittification" on the Daily Show.
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3 Ways to Take Action
1. Surveillance Self-Defense
Get started on protecting your data from these companies by assessing your risk threshold. You can use further SSD guides to change your privacy settings and make more informed choices about the tools you use.
2. Tell Congress to Take Action on Section 702
Section 702 of the Foreign Intelligence Surveillance Act (FISA) is among the United States’ most infamous mass surveillance programs. Sold to the public as a foreign surveillance tool, it has become a backdoor for law enforcement to search through Americans’ private communications without ever obtaining a warrant. We need to act now to prevent Congress from reauthorizing 702 in a way that ignores the truth: This authority needs to change.
3. Install Privacy Badger
Privacy Badger is a free browser extension made by EFF to stop companies from spying on you online.
About EFF
"EFF is the most important, most effective digital rights group in the world. You can't fix enshittification, and neither can I. Systemic problems just don't have individual solutions. To build a new, good internet, we need systemic change - the kind of change that EFF makes, with your help."
—Cory Doctorow
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Today, certain powerful corporations are attempting to shut down online speech, prevent new innovation from reaching consumers, and facilitating government surveillance. We challenge corporate overreach just as we challenge government abuses of power.
We also develop technologies that can help individuals protect their privacy and security online, which our technologists build and release freely to the public for anyone to use.
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