Doctorow describes 'shitty technology adoption curve': harmful technologies start with people without social power (prisoners, asylum inmates, refugees) then work up to children, high school kids, blue-collar workers, pink-collar workers, and finally white-collar workers and middle-class people.

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Cory Doctorow

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If you've got a really terrible idea to that involves technology that's incredibly harmful to the people it's imposed on, you can't start with me... You have to find people without social power.

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We Didn’t Ask for This Internet | The Ezra Klein ShowThe Ezra Klein Show
Created: 8/12/2026, 6:46:41 PM

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