Did Big Tech Ruin the Internet? with Cory Doctorow

What happened to the internet? Why did the platforms that once felt useful, fun and liberating become manipulative, cluttered and hostile? In this episode, we talk to writer, activist and digital theorist Cory Doctorow, the man who coined the term enshittification , about how tech platforms decay: first they are good to users, then they are good to business customers, and finally they become good only to shareholders and executives. From Facebook and Instagram to Amazon, ad fraud, app lock-in, monopoly power and the slow death of the high street, this is a conversation about how digital capitalism corrodes the things we rely on. But it is also about what can be done, why regulators failed, how political will may be shifting, and why the fight against corporate power is suddenly back on the table. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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Did Big Tech Ruin the Internet? with Cory Doctorow is an episode from The David McWilliams Podcast by David McWilliams.

This episode is 39:58 long.

This episode was published on Mar 31, 2026.

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