Cory Doctorow

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

And remember, we started off talking about coalitions.

Well, this is a coalition the world has never seen before.

These three groups of people who have three different constituencies, three different arguments, but we all want the same thing.

We want to transition from an internet that is controlled by a small number of large American firms

into one in which we restore that technological self-determination that made us so excited to use the internet in the early days, where users of the technology have the final say over how it's used, where our digital services are built on open, transparent, auditable technology, not black boxes.

Again, back to the structural engineering.

If you hired a firm of structural engineers to build this building, and they're like, we're not going to tell you the math we use to calculate the load stresses, don't go in the building.

Where the HVAC is, where the electric- You bought your house.

Yeah, it's a trade secret, yeah.

So now you have this like- But it's your house.

We are like closer to a transition

to a much better internet than we've been in my whole career, my 25 years at the- Damn, that's amazing.

Now I'm optimistic.

I don't mean like it's a slam dunk or whatever.

And I would caution you off of optimism.

I think optimism and pessimism, wait though, wait, because I think hope is good.

I think optimism and pessimism are a waste of your time.

But optimism and pessimism are this kind of fatalistic belief that things are going to get better or worse no matter what we do, right?

Hope is the belief that if you materially improve your circumstances, that you can ascend a gradient towards a world you want to live in.

And as you attain that higher vantage point, there's terrain that will be revealed to you that was occluded when you were down at this lower elevation.

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