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Cory Doctorow Advocates for Digital Rights and Competition

9/28/2025

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Cory Doctorow will read Enshittification on Oct. 7 at The Brattle Theater, Cambridge, with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd.
He coined 'enshittification' to describe the digital decline and its impact on human rights.
Doctorow says policy choices created the Internet and calls for regulatory changes to restore competition.
Privacy-law gaps since 1988 enable surveillance; he advocates disenshittifying digital environment.

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Story summary

Cory Doctorow will read Enshittification on Oct. 7 at The Brattle Theater, Cambridge, with Randall Munroe, creator of xkcd.
He coined 'enshittification' to describe the digital decline and its impact on human rights.
Doctorow says policy choices created the Internet and calls for regulatory changes to restore competition.
Privacy-law gaps since 1988 enable surveillance; he advocates disenshittifying digital environment.