Comment by naikrovek | Hacker News Reader

Comment by naikrovek | Hacker News Reader

I HATE how much Cory Doctorow I see on the internet. it's been like this for 20+ years.

This man is well motivated, is doing good work for common people and doing his best to advance the things that need advancement. fantastic.

one thing, though. he is easily the most annoying person on earth, to me. instinctually I go against what he is doing because of it. why does the most annoying person on the planet, according to me, get to coin terrible words like this? there are already so many other words that mean the same thing, and "things getting worse" has been a topic of discussion for everyone on earth at some point or another, going back as far as human speech. but this guy just gets to make up words which suck and everyone loves it?

fuck this guy, I'm turning evil. if C.D. were 1% palatable I would be behind him, but he's not.

can't we find someone who doesn't rub me raw to coin words? this guy gets to coin terrible words and give me two plus decades of full-time activism fatigue and I get downvoted on the shitty orange website for having this opinion.

honestly don’t get this take. it’s a perfectly catchy word, and i find most of doctorow’s writings on the subject of capitalism’s destruction of the internet to be pretty accurate.

what particular things about him are so unpalatable you would be willing to support anti-consumer practices (“turning evil”) to spite him? I assume you’re probably kidding for exaggeration, but still it’s not clear to me what is that offputting about him.

I agree with GP. It's not so much what he says but how he says and promotes it.

It's always going to be a touchy subject, a lot of people will see attacks on Doctorow as a denouncement of his ideas. Most people probably agree with what he has to say, just in simpler terms with less sensationalist framing. His use of manufactured phrases like "enshittification" already puts him on the back heel, while his other contemporaries have written licenses or software that spoke for itself.

Cory Doctorow didn't do anything wrong, he just hasn't reached the levels that a lot of people were hoping he'd reach. I'm with the GP comment too, Doctorow's writing feels less prescriptive and more rhetorical. I'm almost worried it does more harm than good, at this point.

it’s worth reading his book “The Internet Con” - i found it fairly prescriptive on specific issues and fixes to try and enable further competition in the industry.

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