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    Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow

    Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow

    FromThe Underworld Podcast

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    Digital Hucksters, Crypto Scams and the Internet’s “Enshittification” with Cory Doctorow

    FromThe Underworld Podcast

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    Length:
    57 minutes
    Released:
    Mar 19, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Description

    From Ponzi schemes to shitcoins, phishing scams and Nigerian princes, we’re living in a golden age of online crime. But hasn’t it always been this way? Cory Doctorow’s latest novel “The Bezzle” dives into some of these recesses, and America’s prison-industrial complex—all part of something he’s dubbed the “enshittification” of the World Wide Web
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    Released:
    Mar 19, 2024
    Format:
    Podcast episode

    Titles in the series (100)

    Underworld exposes the secret world of transnational criminal networks that have flourished since there were banks to bust, drugs to smuggle, and scams to run. Journalists Danny Gold and Sean Williams bring their experience reporting on dangerous people and organizations to take listeners on a global tour of mobsters, warlords and crooks - from Brooklyn to Beijing, from the streets to the boardrooms - and everywhere in between. Underworld is a show about heroes, villains, and the barely visible mafias that affect all our lives, whether we know it or not. Underworld Podcast Store: shop.podcastone.com/underworld