Articles by Cory Doctorow

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What Is Driving the AI Hype Machine?
Cory Doctorow | The Listening Post/Al Jazeera – TRANSCEND Media Service, 26 Jan 2026

19 Jan 2026 – Artificial intelligence is routinely framed as unstoppable – a technology the world must adapt to, not question. But as companies invest hundreds of billions and the hype accelerates, scrutiny has fallen away. Who controls the story around AI and why past tech “revolutions” offer a warning.

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Censorship
Cory Doctorow – TRANSCEND Media Service, 23 Jan 2023

Wall Graffiti Spray: “The problem with Censorship is” with a solid black square after, to represent a blacked out line and loss of information from censorship.

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Constantly Wrong
Cory Doctorow | Pluralistic - TRANSCEND Media Service, 16 Nov 2020

12 Nov 2020 – In “Constantly Wrong,” Kirby Ferguson continues his brilliant mashup video work on conspiracy theories with a new, 47 minute documentary that contrasts real-world conspiracies (crimes) with conspiracy theories.

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Technology Should Be Used to Create Social Mobility – Not to Spy on Citizens
Cory Doctorow – The Guardian, 16 Mar 2015

NSA and GCHQ mass surveillance is more about disrupting political opposition than catching terrorists.

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How Laws Restricting Tech Actually Expose Us to Greater Harm
Cory Doctorow, Wired – TRANSCEND Media Service, 29 Dec 2014

The Internet isn’t just the world’s most perfect video-on-demand service. It’s not simply a better way to get pornography. It’s not merely a tool for planning terrorist attacks. Those are only use cases for the net; what the net is, is the nervous system of the 21st century. It’s time we started acting like it.

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