Free to Read: Little Brother by Cory Doctorow
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Little Brother is a book by Cory Doctorow freely released under a Creative Commons license. The book is about a group of teens that use technology alongside social activism to protect themselves against an overwhelming abuse-of-authority (aka: a malicious Big Brother).
It can be read on Switch / pure HTML here:
https://craphound.com/littlebrother/Cory_Doctorow_-_Little_Brother.htm(also available in other formats, for eBook readers or phones)
Little Brother features a bunch of examples of tech being able to exert an unfair and unreasonable amount of control over groups of people that are otherwise innocent. One example is the students have locked down laptops that can only visit school websites, but have a workaround in the form of going online via their Xbox's (sound familiar?).
I read this book in high school and it's influenced which software I use, and how I think about digital rights with respect to users. I recommend it!
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OK will do.
Avid reader here! -
hm might read- sounds relatable-
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read.
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Wow! That was fast, I need to re-read myself... How did it hold up for 2022 standards?
There's two more sequels but I haven't checked out the most recent one.
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understandable glares at Mark Zuckerberg's privacy-abolishing wreck
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re-reading rn bc its fun and i broke my kindle
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Bumping this thread!
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Huh, I Might Read It-
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But I'm On Switch- And That 20 Minute Timer Annoys Me-
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But I'm On Switch- And That 20 Minute Timer Annoys Me-
@SooNotAlyssa5631 same here
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I'm still recommending this!
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I've reread it a few times since then (terrifying to think it was 2022) and it's genuinely still great, can definitely vouch for this and you should all read it asap lmao
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I've read snippets of 1984 by George Orwell and that sounds like it was loosely based on it, but up to recent standards instead. In 1984 they're under a dictatorship of the omnipresent Big Brother, maybe this is what would've happened if it wasn't written in the 50's... sounds like a good read though, i'll try checking it out!
