Tech Billionaires Are DESTROYING Their Own Platforms... And Keep Getting Richer

Journalist, blogger, and science fiction writer Cory Doctorow stops by the studio to talk to Jon about "enshittification," his theory that explains how, sometime over the last decade, everything online became substantially worse. The two discuss how tech companies lure in, trap, and then extract as much capital as possible from users; how that process played out at Facebook and Amazon; and what it would take — from a Democratic-led FTC and Congress — to reverse the trend before it's supercharged by AI.

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CHAPTERS
0:00 - Intro
1:36 - Cory Doctorow joins
19:50 - ad break
23:56 - Is the "ensh*ttification" of digital platforms inevtiable?
44:44 - ad break
48:41 - What would a Democratic-led FTC and Congress look like?
01:03:40 - housekeeping

Is the internet slowly breaking our brains, and if so, what can we do about it? Offline with Jon Favreau is a place where you can take a break from doom-scrolling and tune in to smarter, lighter conversations about the impact of technology & the internet on our collective culture. Intimate interviews between Pod Save America host Jon Favreau and notable guests like Stephen Colbert, Hasan Piker, ContraPoints, Margaret Atwood, and Megan Rapinoe spark curiosity and introspection around the various ways our extremely online existence shapes everything from the ways we live, work, and interact with one another. Together we’ll figure out how to live happier, healthier lives, both on and offline.

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