Cory Doctorow on America the Technofeudalist State

Tue, 27 May 2025 00:00:00 +0000

Enshittification, Techno-Feudalism, and Failed States

I’ve been listening to Cory Doctorow talk about enshittification for a while now. As a long-time fan, his fiction and essays have deeply influenced my work as a hacker, writer, and activist. Little Brother shaped how I think about surveillance and resistance. Someone Comes to Town, Someone Leaves Town was part of the inspiration co-founding Hive13. His ideas about digital autonomy resonate with me.

Cory Doctorow, is a Canadian, and has clearly lived for a long time in countries with functioning governments. On the podcast he suggests that because big tech is protected by digital locks, a product of the American Digital Millennium Copyright Act, that Canada and the EU have an opportunity to hold firms like Google and Amazon accountable. He advocates for inter operability mandates, so users aren’t forced to abandon their digital communities just to escape enshittified platforms. It’s a very Canadian way to confront the problem.

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Cory Doctorow on America the Technofeudalist State

Enshittification, Techno-Feudalism, and Failed States