Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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I say, even if you think the only thing the government should do is enforce contracts, you still need a referee who's more powerful than the players on the team, than the teams on the field.
Otherwise, what does it matter if the government says, oh, you know, party A violated their contractual obligations to party B if party A is more powerful than the government?
So the largest corporation you're willing to tolerate determines the size of the government you're going to have to have.
It has to be bigger.
And so if you want small government, you need smaller corporations.
There's always going to be a planner.
So either it's Apple saying ice blocks should be illegal...
And what's your lever on Apple?
Like if you don't like how Apple's behaving, what do you do?
You say, oh, I'm gonna switch to Android or I'm not gonna buy any apps anymore.
You just do this like half-assed, like people in this day and age think that a boycott is how you shop, right?
I participated in the boycotts against apartheid.
They were not shopping differently.
They were a global movement organized in solidarity with the ANC and trade unions in South Africa that arranged for a set of like articulated objectives and a tactic around it, right?
It wasn't shopping hard.
The bus boycott in Montgomery was not like, I feel like walking to work today.
They did 380 days without riding the bus because they organized solidarity networks with carpools and they were working with the bus drivers to keep them fed while the buses were shut.
That's what a boycott is.
It's not shopping hard.
So either Apple gets to decide which software
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