Keynote: Enshittification Was a Choice - Cory Doctorow, Science Fiction Author, Activist and Journalist
The internet's enshittification - its consolidation into gigantic platforms that trapped and then tormented end users and business customers alike - was a choice. Specific policies transformed the old, good internet into the enshitternet of "five giant websites filled with screenshots of the other four." We can build a new, good internet, but it's going to take more than good tech: it will require good *policies*.