Keynote Speaker – Cory Doctorow
summary
A January 2025 Groundwork Collective report documents nurses hired through three apps Shift Key Shift Med and Care Rev whose wages are algorithmically wage discriminated after data brokers sell their debt histories and offers drop for the desperate. Platforms use twiddling — live tweaks to search rankings, pay, or tips — exemplified by Google's 2019 deliberate accuracy cuts to multiply queries and the Jedi Blue ad collusion; Apple flips a privacy opt out for 96% yet runs secret ad systems. Reform proposals include repealing DMCA §1201 and unblocking app stores to cut the inshitification rent.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Introduction
- 1:25What is inshitification
- 6:20Technical mechanism behind inshitification
- 13:48Paying doesn’t prevent exploitation
- 20:07Monopolies evade discipline
- 27:09Forces that disciplined tech firms
- 35:14Hostile environment for inshitifiers
- 41:11Future of the internet
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