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adam conover grew up on the internet, quite literally. He was fascinated by this new means of communicating that allowed him to talk with people all over the world. But now we've got just three or four gigantic platforms that take our attention away from what's really going on around us. We feel cursed by it, shackled to it in a way that we wish we could escape.

The early Internet was open, exciting, and deeply optimistic. So how did we end up, just a few decades later, with one that’s closed, exploitative, and makes most of us incredibly depressed? Longtime Internet gadfly and author of How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism, Cory Doctorow, joins Adam to break down how the Internet has changed for the worse, and what we can do about it. Check out his book at https://factuallypod.com/books Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices See Privacy Policy at https://art19.com/privacy and California Privacy Notice at https://art19.com/privacy#do-not-sell-my-info.