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Douglas Rushkoff & Cory Doctorow 22 Oct 2025 • EN

Cory Doctorow: Enshittification is Not Inevitable

Cory Doctorow, author of Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It, unpacks the systemic forces behind digital monopolies, regulatory capture, the erosion of user rights, and how collective action and policy change can reclaim technology for the public good. Team Human is proudly spons

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Cory Doctorow coined a word to describe how what we once loved about the internet, and relied on, has become exploitative, corrosive, and anti-user. And now he’s written a book about it, “Enshittification: Why Everything Got Worse and What to Do About It.” He analyzes how TikTok, Google Search, email, music streaming a

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Doctorow lays out his "enshittification" playbook—how tech platforms lure users, trap businesses, then extract value from both—tying it to interoperability, right-to-repair, and DMCA lock-ins, with Facebook as Exhibit A. He explains why incremental state laws can break Big Tech's coalitions better than sweeping federal

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Adam Conover & Cory Doctorow 08 Oct 2025 • EN

The Ensh*ttification of Everything with Cory Doctorow

The internet is getting shittier. Hell, the whole world is getting shittier. The thing is, it’s no accident—it’s by design. The tech giants who run the internet have figured out how to make bank off of making our everyday experience with the internet worse, and this process is bleeding over into the physical world. Thi

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Sam Seder & Cory Doctorow 29 Sep 2025 • EN

3591 - Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse w/ Cory Doctorow

It's Fun Day Monday on the Majority Report On today's show: Hundreds of masked federal agents from unknown departments have been deployed to downtown Chicago to stand around. The Feds in Chicago fail miserably at chasing down a food delivery person in a hilarious display of poor physical health. A CBP agent is recorded

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Philippa Hall & Ken Follett 12 Sep 2025 • EN

Ken Follett talks about food & fiction

I interview Ken Follett about Circle Of Days You can pre-order Ken Follett’s Circle Of Days here: Bookshop: https://uk.bookshop.org/p/books/circle-of-days-ken-follett/7840943?ean=9781529442342 Waterstones: https://www.waterstones.com/book/circle-of-days/ken-follett/9781529442342 Amazon: https://amzn.eu/d/i98OtIG Plus I

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