- internet, antitrust, social media, World Wide Web
**When the tech platforms promised a future of "connection," they were lying. They said their "walled gardens" would keep us safe, but those were prison walls.**
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Contemporary, earnest, resolved and plot-driven.
- contemporarynostalgic
- earnestironic
- resolvedopen-ended
- character-ledplot-driven
- gravecomic
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- Author
- Cory Doctorow
- First published
- 2023
- Pages
- 192
- Publisher
- Verso Books
- Editions
- 2
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9781804292143
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“This is a book for people who want to destroy Big Tech.”
From his website: Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, journalist and blogger -- the co-editor of Boing Boing (boingboing.net) and the author of the bestselling Tor Teens/HarperCollins UK novel LITTLE BROTHER. He is the former European director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation and co-founded the UK Open Rights Group. Born in Toronto, Canada, he now lives in London. 2 Creative Commons-licensed photos: cindiann: http://www.flickr.com/photos/trucolorsfly/2625294688/ & Joi Ito, Creative Commons Attribution 3.0.
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