{"id":1119,"date":"2026-01-10T09:12:46","date_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:12:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trump-may-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-enshittification-this-is-our-chance-to-make-tech-good-again-cory-doctorow\/"},"modified":"2026-01-10T09:12:46","modified_gmt":"2026-01-10T09:12:46","slug":"trump-may-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-enshittification-this-is-our-chance-to-make-tech-good-again-cory-doctorow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/trump-may-be-the-beginning-of-the-end-for-enshittification-this-is-our-chance-to-make-tech-good-again-cory-doctorow\/","title":{"rendered":"Trump may be the beginning of the end for \u2018enshittification\u2019 \u2013 this is our chance to make tech good again | Cory Doctorow"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control of our livesIt\u2019s been 25 years since I started working for the Electronic Frontier Foundation, an American nonprofit dedicated to preserving and promoting human rights on the internet. I\u2019ve found myself in dozens of countries working with activists, politicians and civil servants to untangle the complex technical questions raised by the internet, and every one of our discussions ended in the same place. \u201cOK,\u201d they\u2019d say, \u201cyou\u2019ve definitely laid out the best way to regulate tech, but we can\u2019t do it.\u201dWhy not? Because \u2013 inevitably \u2013 the US trade rep had beaten me to every one of those countries and made it eye-wateringly clear that if they regulated tech in a way that favoured their own people, industries and national interests, the US would bury them in tariffs.Cory Doctorow is a science fiction author, activist and journalist. He is the author of dozens of books, most recently Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What To Do About It Continue reading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The US president is weaponising tech, but his tariffs and Brexit provide a surprising opportunity to gain back digital control<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1119","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1119"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1119\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1119"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1119"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wp.demoviewer4.com\/keith-ponder\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1119"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}