Cory Doctorow

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1,791 appearances 17 recordings 12 series first heard Dec 2024 last heard 8 Jul

Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.

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I've been reading you since I was in college.

I am so honored to hear that.

I also feel very old.

Well, it's, you know, I've worked for this nonprofit called the Electronic Frontier Foundation, sort of a digital human rights group for 25 years.

And I've been... Thank you.

And I've been trying to... I've been trying to...

It's easy now.

I'm trying to get people to care about tech policy all that time.

And of course, it's very abstract, and it's very technical.

It's hard to make it urgent.

And I've come up with all kinds of metaphors and so on.

Turns out that the secret is you let people swear.

And suddenly, they become very engaged with the subject.

Yeah, works for me.

Everything I do, yeah.

So chitification is this dirty word I came up with to describe how platforms go bad.

And I don't know if you want me to go through like the stages of and shitification.

Yeah, sure, I think it'll help.

I like to use Facebook as an example.

They're kind of the canonical example here.

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