Internet and Letters

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The Post-American Internet

Cory Doctorow | Pluralistic | 1st January 2026

Speech about a predicted shift in internet geopolitics, from the writer who coined the word "enshittification" to describe decaying online platforms. Trump's trade policy has dismantled global norms that favoured the US. Crises precipitate change. With the US no longer a "neutral" tech broker, an "unstoppable coalition of activists, entrepreneurs and natsec hawks" is poised to refashion the internet (8,000 words)

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2025 Letter

Dan Wang | 1st January 2026

Dan Wang's China letter is an annual classic. He moved from Yale to Stanford this year and, back in San Francisco, found that Silicon Valley and the Chinese Communist Party share a fondness for paranoia and a general lack of humour. The US is suffering from Trump's mishandling of China, but Europe is doing worse. Still: "American problems seem more fixable to me than Chinese problems" (14,000 words)

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