Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
- Author
- Recorded Future News
- Published
- Tue 15 Jul 2025
- Episode Link
- https://play.prx.org/listen?ge=prx_8376_41b81fdd-9f0c-4ff2-9dc2-0a7a9cc34971&uf=https%3A%2F%2Fpublicfeeds.net%2Ff%2F8376%2Fclickhere
An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts:
We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and internet contrarian Cory Doctorow charts the internet’s slow descent—from open commons to corporate enclosure—and lays out a path to take it back.
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