#Tag · bonfire.cafe

Another channel where I'd love to see you appear, if you can, is Louis Rossmann's. Louis is a very active advocate for #RightToRepair and #RightToOwn, a likewise active opponent of #surveillanceCapitalism and #enshittification, and a strangely effective herder of tech-culture cats. He founded the Consumer Rights Wiki [1], and lobbies and organizes political campaigns which get gamers and PC builders out to city halls and state legislatures. His YouTube channel has 2.47 million subscribers, similarly active to the GamersNexus viewers, and the Consumer Right's Wiki editors may soon give the venerable @molly0xfff a run for her (figurative) Wikipedian money.

He's also covered the Bloomberg #DMCA abuse against GN [2], and volunteers to fund legal battles against such corporate #censorship. There's likely a large part of the combined audiences of GamersNexus and of Rossmann's channel which do not overlap demographically (or, for a significant portion, politically) with typical audiences of the venues where I've seen or heard of you ( @pluralistic) presenting the book so far, yet those audiences are certain to be amenable to your message, so talking with those audiences could help both the sales and the mission of the book.

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[1] https://consumerrights.wiki/w/Main_Page
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6RJvrTC6oTI

David

@deFractal@infosec.exchange · 2 weeks ago

As Cory Doctorow's #Enshittification book tour approaches its conclusion, there are a couple more online channels where it would be great to see Cory present the book tailored to the channel audience. Particularly, #GamersNexus (despite its name and origins) has developed into a serious investigative journalist organization, taking on the likes of Nvidia and Bloomberg and winning. See, for example, their excellent documentary on "The Nvidia AI GPU Black Market" [1], their follow-on video about Bloomberg's vexatious DMCA takedown [2], and their second follow-on about that takedown backfiring [3].

GN (with whom I have no affiliation) currently has 2.53 million subscribers, and their videos have exceptionally high ratios of views per subscriber and likes per view. Their new spin-off channel, GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy, has a more model (and presumably largely overlapping) 182K subscribers, and covers mostly the topics political leaders, regulators, and enforcement bodies have been contacting GN about since the GPU smuggling documentary. (See, for example, their video [4] about the stock and finance sloshing around in the companies forming the AI bubble.)

If you can get Steve and the team at GN to host you, Cory, @pluralistic, you'd reach a large audience of likely buyers who are also likely to act meaningfully to further to political objectives advocated in the book.

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[1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1H3xQaf7BFI
[2] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tUnRWh4xOCY
[3] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9y_KF235r7A
[4] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3JfOxx6Hh4