How to Fix the Internet podcast

How to Fix the Internet

The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, this podcast explores creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges. Hosted by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Associate Director of Digital Strategy Jason Kelley, How to Fix the Internet will help you become deeply informed on vital technology issues as we work to build a better technological future together.

The internet is broken—but it doesn’t have to be. If you’re concerned about how surveillance, online advertising, and automated content moderation are hurting us online and offline, the Electronic Frontier Foundation’s How to Fix the Internet podcast offers a better way forward. EFF has been defending your rights online for over thirty years and is behind many of the biggest digital rights protections since the invention of the internet. Through curious conversations with some of the leading minds in law and technology, this podcast explores creative solutions to some of today’s biggest tech challenges. Hosted by EFF Executive Director Cindy Cohn and EFF Associate Director of Digital Strategy Jason Kelley, How to Fix the Internet will help you become deeply informed on vital technology issues as we work to build a better technological future together.

 

#65

Building and Preserving the Library of Everything

All this season, “How to Fix the Internet” has been focusing on the tools and technology o... more

10 Sep 2025

42 MINS

42:52

10 Sep 2025


#64

Protecting Privacy in Your Brain

The human brain might be the grandest computer of all, but in this episode, we talk to two... more

27 Aug 2025

38 MINS

38:45

27 Aug 2025


#63

Separating AI Hope from AI Hype

If you believe the hype, artificial intelligence will soon take all our jobs, or solve all... more

13 Aug 2025

39 MINS

39:02

13 Aug 2025


#62

Smashing the Tech Oligarchy

Many of the internet’s thorniest problems can be attributed to the concentration of power ... more

30 Jul 2025

29 MINS

29:37

30 Jul 2025


#61

Finding the Joy in Digital Security

Many people approach digital security training with furrowed brows, as an obstacle to over... more

16 Jul 2025

40 MINS

40:48

16 Jul 2025


#60

Cryptography Makes a Post-Quantum Leap

The cryptography that protects our privacy and security online relies on the fact that eve... more

02 Jul 2025

32 MINS

32:39

02 Jul 2025


#59

Securing Journalism on the ‘Data-Greedy’ Internet

Public-interest journalism speaks truth to power, so protecting press freedom is part of p... more

18 Jun 2025

39 MINS

39:02

18 Jun 2025


#58

Why Three is Tor's Magic Number

Many in Silicon Valley, and in U.S. business at large, seem to believe innovation springs ... more

04 Jun 2025

30 MINS

30:06

04 Jun 2025


#57

Love the Internet Before You Hate On It

There’s a weird belief out there that tech critics hate technology. But do movie critics h... more

21 May 2025

39 MINS

39:08

21 May 2025


#56

Digital Autonomy for Bodily Autonomy

We all leave digital trails as we navigate the internet – records of what we searched for,... more

07 May 2025

39 MINS

39:46

07 May 2025


#55

Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Six

Now more than ever, we need to build, reinforce, and protect the tools and technology that... more

23 Apr 2025

01 MINS

01:33

23 Apr 2025


#54

Vote for “How to Fix the Internet” in the Webby Awards People's Voice Competition!

EFF’s “How to Fix the Internet” podcast is a nominee in the Webby Awards 29th Annual Peopl... more

08 Apr 2025

00 MINS

00:38

08 Apr 2025


#53

Rerelease - Dr. Seuss Warned Us

This episode was first released on May 2, 2023.    Dr. Seuss wrote a story about a Hawtch-... more

23 Mar 2025

30 MINS

30:59

23 Mar 2025


#52

Rerelease - So You Think You're a Critical Thinker

This episode was first released on March 21, 2023.    The promise of the internet was that... more

11 Oct 2024

43 MINS

43:51

11 Oct 2024


#51

Fighting Enshittification

The early internet had a lot of “technological self-determination" — you could opt out of ... more

02 Jul 2024

39 MINS

39:15

02 Jul 2024


#50

AI in Kitopia

Artificial intelligence will neither solve all our problems nor likely destroy the world, ... more

18 Jun 2024

38 MINS

38:19

18 Jun 2024


#49

AI on the Artist’s Palette

Collaging, remixing, sampling—art always has been more than the sum of its parts, a synthe... more

04 Jun 2024

38 MINS

38:38

04 Jun 2024


#48

Chronicling Online Communities

From Napster to YouTube, some of the most important and controversial uses of the internet... more

21 May 2024

35 MINS

35:47

21 May 2024


#47

Building a Tactile Internet

Blind and low-vision people have experienced remarkable gains in information literacy beca... more

07 May 2024

33 MINS

33:11

07 May 2024


#46

Right to Repair Catches the Car

If you buy something—a refrigerator, a car, a tractor, a wheelchair, or a phone—but you ca... more

23 Apr 2024

34 MINS

34:53

23 Apr 2024


#45

Anti-Trust/Pro-Internet

Imagine an internet in which economic power is more broadly distributed, so that more peop... more

09 Apr 2024

38 MINS

38:37

09 Apr 2024


#44

About Face (Recognition)

Is your face truly your own, or is it a commodity to be sold, a weapon to be used against ... more

26 Mar 2024

36 MINS

36:28

26 Mar 2024


#43

"I-Squared" Governance

Imagine a world in which the internet is first and foremost about empowering people, not b... more

12 Mar 2024

36 MINS

36:39

12 Mar 2024


#42

Open Source Beats Authoritarianism

What if we thought about democracy as a kind of open-source social technology, in which ev... more

27 Feb 2024

39 MINS

39:22

27 Feb 2024


#41

Coming Soon: How to Fix the Internet Season Five

We cannot build a better future unless we can envision it. EFF’s How to Fix the Internet r... more

13 Feb 2024

01 MINS

01:48

13 Feb 2024