{"id":232724,"date":"2025-10-18T01:06:07","date_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:06:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232724\/"},"modified":"2025-10-18T01:06:07","modified_gmt":"2025-10-18T01:06:07","slug":"cory-doctorow-on-why-the-internet-got-so-terrible-so-fast-and-what-to-do-about-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/232724\/","title":{"rendered":"Cory Doctorow on Why the Internet Got So Terrible, So Fast, and What to Do About It."},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Airdate: Monday, October 20 at 9AM<\/p>\n<p>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\u2019s written a book about it, \u201cEnshittification: Why Everything Got Worse and What to Do About It.\u201d He analyzes how TikTok, Google Search, email, music streaming and other services and platforms\u00a0 \u2013 technology that we expect to always improve \u2013 have declined so fast. But the tech activist and science fiction writer insists it can be fixed. \u201cThis era, the Enshittocene, is the result of specific policy decisions, made by named individuals,\u201d he writes, and those policies can be reversed and the individuals can be held accountable. We talk to him about what\u2019s gone wrong and how we can make a new, good internet.\u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Airdate: Monday, October 20 at 9AM Cory Doctorow coined a word to describe how what we once loved&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":232725,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[43],"tags":[174,74],"class_list":{"0":"post-232724","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-internet","8":"tag-internet","9":"tag-technology"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232724","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=232724"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/232724\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/232725"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=232724"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=232724"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=232724"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}