Cory Doctorow - Rescuing the Internet From “Enshittification” | The Daily Show
Cory Doctorow on Deconstructing the "Enshittification" of the Internet
Understand the three stages by which Big Tech platforms degrade service for users and businesses, and learn the four policy levers needed to restore a user-centric internet.
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- The Enshittification cycle describes platform decay: starting good, locking users in, monetizing via business customers, and finally extracting maximum value from everyone.
- Blame for this widespread degradation belongs primarily to specific policy failures, not consumer apathy or inevitable market forces.
- Restoring a fair internet requires enforcing antitrust laws, empowering tech worker unions, and mandating interoperability across platforms. This discussion illuminates Cory Doctorow’s framework for understanding why services like Facebook and Amazon have become worse over time. Doctorow frames this decay as a deliberate, policy-enabled process, offering clear steps to reverse the trend and ensure digital tools serve the public interest over corporate profit.
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Top Comments (10)
Only Cory and Ronny could talk fast enough and effectively enough to successfully fix a jam packed 45 minute interview into a 15 minute and 52 second long segment. Well played, boys!
Cory has polished that enshittification description to a mirror finish.
„Let’s get rid of the parasitic billionaires“ applies to so many more fields than just internet platforms 😅
I rewatched this just because I love hearing Cory insult zuck
Love Corey but this interview is why folks should go find a longer form interview with him. Much easier to understand what he is talking about if he has 30 to 40 minutes instead of 7
"the kind of neurological injury specific to having paid for an economics degree" is a magnificent sentence
The phone network analogy for social media is probably the most accurate I've heard. It does not matter what network you're on you can still contact whoever you want on a phone, and it makes sense it should be the same for social media.
I love that Ronny let him talk without interrupting. It’s frustrating to me when interviewers get in the way.
Cory is a machine gun of exquisitely scathing analogies.
"Temporarily embarrassed founders" goes so hard.
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Top Comments (10)
Only Cory and Ronny could talk fast enough and effectively enough to successfully fix a jam packed 45 minute interview into a 15 minute and 52 second long segment. Well played, boys!
Cory has polished that enshittification description to a mirror finish.
„Let’s get rid of the parasitic billionaires“ applies to so many more fields than just internet platforms 😅
I rewatched this just because I love hearing Cory insult zuck
Love Corey but this interview is why folks should go find a longer form interview with him. Much easier to understand what he is talking about if he has 30 to 40 minutes instead of 7
"the kind of neurological injury specific to having paid for an economics degree" is a magnificent sentence
The phone network analogy for social media is probably the most accurate I've heard. It does not matter what network you're on you can still contact whoever you want on a phone, and it makes sense it should be the same for social media.
I love that Ronny let him talk without interrupting. It’s frustrating to me when interviewers get in the way.
Cory is a machine gun of exquisitely scathing analogies.
"Temporarily embarrassed founders" goes so hard.