The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress.

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Cory Doctorow

2026-01-01 10:37:08

*On December 28th, I delivered a speech entitled "A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet" for 39C3, the 39th Chaos Communications Congress in Hamburg, Germany. This is the transcript of that speech*:

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A post-American, enshittification-resistant internet : Cory Doctorow : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive

Trump has staged an unscheduled, midair rapid disassembly of the global system of trade. Ironically, it is this system that prevented all of America's...

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Hey look at this

* The Enshittifinancial Crisis wheresyoured.at/the-enshittifi…

* Austrian Supreme Court: Meta must give users full access to their data noyb.geu/en/austrian-supreme-c…

* the myth of merit in the managerial class backofmind.substack.com/p/the-…

* ECI, Ethical Computing Initiative aol.codeberg.page/eci/

* BMW Patents Proprietary Screws That Only Dealerships Can Remove carbuzz.com/bmw-roundel-logo-s…

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#20yrsago Online sf mag Infinite Matrix goes out with a bang – new Gibson, Rucker, Kelly web.archive.org/web/2006010112…

#20yrsago Wil McCarthy’s wonderful “Hacking Matter” as a free download web.archive.org/web/2006010305…

#15yrsago Papa Sangre: binaural video game with no video web.archive.org/web/2010122417…

#15yrsago DDoS versus human rights organizations cyber.harvard.edu/publications…

#15yrsago Why I have a public email address theguardian.com/technology/201…

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#15yrsago How the FCC failed the nation on Net Neutrality web.archive.org/web/2010122407…

#15yrsago Bankster robberies: Bank of America and friends wrongfully foreclose on customers, steal all their belongings nytimes.com/2010/12/22/busines…

#10yrsago India’s deadly exam-rigging scandal: murder, corruption, suicide and scapegoats theguardian.com/world/2015/dec…

#10yrsago Copyright infringement “gang” raided by UK cops: 3 harmless middle-aged karaoke fans arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…

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#10yrsago IETF approves HTTP error code 451 for Internet censorship web.archive.org/web/2015122215…

#10yrsago Billionaire Sheldon Adelson secretly bought newspaper, ordered all hands to investigate judges he hated web.archive.org/web/2015122008…

#10yrsago Tax havens hold $7.6 trillion; 8% of world’s total wealth web.archive.org/web/2016010314…

#10yrsago Mansplaining Lolita lithub.com/men-explain-lolita-…

#10yrsago Lifelock admits it lied in its ads (again), agrees to $100M fine web.archive.org/web/2015121800…

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#10yrsago Uninsured driver plows through gamer’s living-room wall and creams him mid-Fallout 4 gofundme.com/f/helpforbenzo

#10yrsago Juniper Networks backdoor confirmed, password revealed, NSA suspected wired.com/2015/12/juniper-netw…

#10yrsago A survivalist on why you shouldn’t bug out waldenlabs.com/10-reasons-not-…

#1yrago Nurses whose shitty boss is a shitty app pluralistic.net/2024/12/18/loo…

#1yrago Proud to be a blockhead pluralistic.net/2024/12/21/blo…

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Dec 18th's threads: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance; and more!

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Cory Doctorow

2025-12-18 14:54:03

Today's threads (a thread)

Inside: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2025/12/18/sel…

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(This is the last edition of Pluralistic for the year - see you in 2026!)

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Pluralistic: A perfect distillation of the social uselessness of finance (18 Dec 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:

us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…

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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:

us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…

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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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Upcoming appearances:

* #Denver: Enshittification at Tattered Cover Colfax, Jan 22
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* #ColoradoSprings: Guest of Honor at COSine, Jan 23-25
firstfridayfandom.org/cosine/

* #Ottawa: Enshittification at Perfect Books, Jan 28
instagram.com/p/DS2nGiHiNUh/

* #Toronto: Enshittification and the Age of Extraction with Tim Wu, Jan 30
nowtoronto.com/event/cory-doct…

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Recent appearances:

* The Enshitification Life Cycle with David Dayen (Organized Money)
buzzsprout.com/2412334/episode…

* Enshittificaition on The Last Show With David Cooper:
iheart.com/podcast/256-the-las…

* (Digital) Elbows Up (OCADU)
vimeo.com/1146281673

* How to Stop “Ensh*ttification” Before It Kills the Internet (Capitalisn't)
youtube.com/watch?v=34gkIvYiHx…

* Enshittification on The Daily Show
youtube.com/watch?v=d2e-c9SF5n…

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I'm coming to Colorado! Catch me in #Denver on Jan 22 at The Tattered Cover:

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And in #ColoradoSprings from Jan 23-25, where I'm the Guest of Honor at COSine:

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Then I'll be in #Ottawa on Jan 28 at Perfect Books:

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And in #Toronto with Tim Wu on Jan 30:

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