{"id":301884,"date":"2025-12-05T09:00:03","date_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:00:03","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/enshitification-and-how-big-tech-is-making-the-internet-worse-for-everyone-cory-doctorow\/"},"modified":"2025-12-05T09:00:03","modified_gmt":"2025-12-05T09:00:03","slug":"enshitification-and-how-big-tech-is-making-the-internet-worse-for-everyone-cory-doctorow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsisc.com\/videos\/enshitification-and-how-big-tech-is-making-the-internet-worse-for-everyone-cory-doctorow\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;Enshitification&#8217; and how big tech is making the internet worse for everyone &#8211; Cory Doctorow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/i1.ytimg.com\/vi\/tZQaEeuuI3Q\/hqdefault.jpg\" alt=\"'Enshitification' and how big tech is making the internet worse for everyone - Cory Doctorow\"><br \/> <iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/tZQaEeuuI3Q\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe> <\/p>\n<p>Cory Doctorow has spent decades helping to shape the way we think about the modern internet. He is a campaigner against monopolies, against surveillance and against digital rights. His new book Enshitification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It analyses how the internet giants have captured us and become not quite as good as we had thought they were. <\/p>\n<p>[Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe]<\/p>\n<p>On this episode of Ways to Change the World, Krishnan Guru-Murthy speaks to Cory about the broken systems we are living in and what we can do to try and make things better.<\/p>\n<p>Strong language warning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8212;-<\/p>\n<p>Get more news at our site &#8211; https:\/\/www.channel4.com\/news\/ <\/p>\n<p>Subscribe to our Substack newsletter: https:\/\/channel4news.substack.com\/subscribe<\/p>\n<p>Follow us:<br \/>\nTikTok &#8211; https:\/\/www.tiktok.com\/@c4news<br \/>\nInstagram &#8211; https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/channel4news\/<br \/>\nTwitter &#8211; https:\/\/twitter.com\/Channel4News<br \/>\nFacebook &#8211; https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/Channel4News\/<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cory Doctorow has spent decades helping to shape the way we think about the modern internet. 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