Breaking Free - Pathways to a Fair Technological Future

This is a reformatted version of a report from the Norwegian Consumer Council. This report discusses enshittification, a name for the fact and process by which all for-profit digital platforms degrade over time. A proven occurrence that negatively affects our economies, democracies communities and most of all our citizens and consumers.

Due to space constraints in the Ourzine the footnotes are not listed. You can find them in the original article at www.forbrukerradet.no/breakingfree/

The links below are for the PDFs of this Ourzine. If you click a link, you will notice the pages of the PDF seem all out of order; it is not designed to be read on a screen. But if you print it two sided on a duplex printer it will come out so that if you cut it in half and put one half on the other, you can read it. This pocket sized booklet, zine, or chapbook, we call an Ourzine.

Anybody who wants can visit https://rorshok.com/ourzines/ or search for Rorshok Ourzines to find us and to find more Ourzines. There, you can set up an account and make one with whatever you want in it. They’re free and there are others in the Rorshok Ourzine library you can download and print. There is even an Ourzine about Ourzines.

Creating, giving, and receiving text on paper is a time honored way to share knowledge. It’s calm and allows for reflection. No tabs, no scrolling, no links, no cookies, no notifications. There’s a beginning, middle, and end. The Ourzine you make can have whatever you want in it, poems, your or someone’s life story, sector specific news, technical information, advice, conference information and agenda, photos of a trip, a history of something, or a thesis.

What you make is completely private by default but you can mail them to people and of course just leave them around for others to find.

Or you can just download and print this one. We hope you like it!