Introducing "Understood: Who Broke Internet"
Jul 15, 2025•38 min
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An episode from "Understood: Who Broke the Internet" from CBC podcasts:
We were promised a digital utopia. What we got was a pay-to-play hellscape of pop-ups, bots, and algorithmic sludge. Writer and internet contrarian Cory Doctorow charts the internet’s slow descent—from open commons to corporate enclosure—and lays out a path to take it back.
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