Engineered Estrangement | An Interview with Cory Doctorow

Engineered Estrangement | An Interview with Cory Doctorow

Cory Doctorow. Photo: Dominik Butzman/Creative CommonsPerhaps Keir Starmer accidentally hit on an important point when he said that Britain risks becoming an “island of strangers.” The spaces we use to convene and communicate – which are increasingly found online – are being enclosed and distorted by oligarchs outside of our borders. While Starmer attributed social alienation to a “squalid chapter” of mass migration under the Conservatives, litt…