https://znetwork.org/author/corydoctorow/ Independent Left News, Analysis, Vision and Strategy Mon, 02 Mar 2026 02:03:07 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://znetwork.org/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/cropped-Z_logo_512-32x32.png https://znetwork.org/author/corydoctorow/ 32 32 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-whole-economy-pays-the-amazon-tax/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-whole-economy-pays-the-amazon-tax/#respond Mon, 02 Mar 2026 01:39:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1295300 Selling on Amazon is a tough business. Sure, you can reach a lot of customers, but this comes at a very high price: the junk fees that Amazon extracts from its sellers amount to 50-60% of the price you pay. That’s a hell of a lot of money to hand over to a middleman, but [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-whole-economy-pays-the-amazon-tax/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/zvideo/enshittification-cory-doctorow-on-why-big-tech-sucks-keeps-getting-worse-what-to-do-about-it/ https://znetwork.org/zvideo/enshittification-cory-doctorow-on-why-big-tech-sucks-keeps-getting-worse-what-to-do-about-it/#respond Sat, 11 Oct 2025 15:10:10 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=video&p=1289798 Writer Cory Doctorow returns to Democracy Now! to discuss his new book Enshittification, which explores the term he coined in 2022 to describe how online platforms like Facebook degrade over time as companies seek to maximize profit at the expense of their users, and it has since become shorthand for describing a pervasive sense of dropping standards across [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/zvideo/enshittification-cory-doctorow-on-why-big-tech-sucks-keeps-getting-worse-what-to-do-about-it/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ip-laws-that-stop-disenshittification/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ip-laws-that-stop-disenshittification/#respond Sat, 12 Apr 2025 13:18:16 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1282362 Donald Trump’s tariffs demand a response. Around the world, that response has defaulted to retaliatory tariffs — a strategy with severe and obvious drawbacks. After years of pandemic shocks and greedflation, people around the globe have severe inflation fatigue, and few governments are eager to risk further price hikes. And while the world is rightly [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-ip-laws-that-stop-disenshittification/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-class-struggle-in-silicon-valley/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-class-struggle-in-silicon-valley/#respond Mon, 25 Mar 2024 14:41:53 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1264130 Tech companies were once known for making high-quality products and treating their workers well. Now, they make inferior products and treat their workers terribly. This is not coincidental. It is a prime example of enshittification, a term I coined in 2022 to describe the process through which monopolistic tech platforms decay in the absence of any checks [...]]]> https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/the-class-struggle-in-silicon-valley/feed/ 0 https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-take-back-the-internet/ https://znetwork.org/znetarticle/how-to-take-back-the-internet/#respond Thu, 15 Feb 2024 16:54:00 +0000 https://znetwork.org/?post_type=znetarticle&p=1262241 Platforms that once represented a promise of freedom are now monopolies based on data extraction and surveillance. Users who joined social media to stay in touch with their friends find themselves trapped in a toxic environment. How did it all go wrong and what can citizens and regulators do to restore a healthy digital ecosystem? 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