Episode 94122Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow on Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification”

Cory Doctorow on Escaping Big Tech, Privacy Battles & “Enshittification”

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Sci-fi isn’t about hypothetical technologies, but rather about challenging the social impact of that tech, says author and activist Cory Doctorow. And in the real world, we must be just as conscious of the societal impact of the tech products we use. “Apologists for Big Tech would like you to think that all of the properties of their platforms are ... inevitably coterminal,” he says. “You cannot have a conversation with your friends without someone like Mark Zuckerberg spying on you from asshol