We Didn’t Ask for This Internet

<p>Ragebait, sponcon, A.I. slop — the internet of 2026 makes a lot of us nostalgic for the internet of 10 or 15 years ago.</p><p>What exactly went wrong here? How did the early promise of the internet get so twisted? And what exactly <i>is </i>wrong here? What kinds of policies could actually make our digital lives meaningfully better?</p><p>Cory Doctorow and Tim Wu have two different theories of the case, which I thought would be interesting to put in conversation together. Doctorow …