enshittified legislation

November 26, 2024 1:53 PM

Annabel Crabb deliciously skewers the Australian Government's latest social media legislation in With its social media ban, parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative enshittification that rises to the cultural moment (Australian ABC)

Ed note- frustrating times and frustrating politics, mostly wanting to share Annabel's quality writing, which I find a joy to read.

posted by freethefeet (4 comments total)

Counterpoint: some tweens are attacking educators with misogynist vitriol while others are bullied into suicide.
posted by CynicalKnight at 3:18 PM on November 26 [1 favorite]

This article uses that word in a way that has nothing to do with how Cory Doctorow defined it.

To be fair, it's not a very good term for what Doctorow was talking about, because it's not very descriptive. Someone should probably come up with a better one.
posted by Artifice_Eternity at 4:43 PM on November 26

I always wondered why he felt the need to make a whole new word for a specific case of what is a general feature of capitalism.
posted by SaltySalticid at 5:06 PM on November 26

(I prefer platform trap to say both what it is and how it gets you; and because you can say it with quite a lot of vitriol despite demure words.)
posted by clew at 5:14 PM on November 26