Cory Doctorow

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1,125 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 9 Jul

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What Now? with Trevor Noah · Cory Doctorow: You Bought it, They Break It · 9 Jul 2026 podcast

I mean, everything, picture books, tech criticism, everything.

And he was singing the praises of a writer who I knew a little, but very much admired, a guy called Iain Banks, died very tragically of cancer, who was a utopian socialist.

And he was like, I consider myself a utopian socialist in the model of Iain M. Banks.

And I was like, no offense, but I knew Ian.

He was an ardent trade unionist and you're a union buster.

And he's like, well, in Ian Banks' novels, I didn't see any unions.

And I'm like, yes, these novels are set 100,000 years in the future in which there are galactic brain artificial intelligences piloting spaceships the size of planets with 100 billion people living on them.

The fact that he didn't see a need for unions there tells you nothing about whether he thinks we need a union here.

And he was like, well, if he and Banks could have seen one of my Tesla factories, he would have seen that we don't need unions either.

And I said, again, no offense.

I think there is a difference between traveling faster than the speed of light and eking out marginal gains in the production of electric vehicles.

Damn.

And that is when he called me a squirt on humanity.

But I wanted to pop the stack because this started with talking about- He blocked you after that.

Well, and you know, one of the things that happened in the Biden administration is they forced Musk to open up access to Tesla chargers for non-Tesla cars.

They said, we're going to put federal dollars through the Inflation Reduction Act into building out a federal network of car chargers, but they will only work with cars whose manufacturers don't block people from using their chargers.

So if you have a charging network and you don't let third parties use it, then we won't let you use the public one.

We won't let the cars you make use the public one.

And so Elon Musk opened up the charger network.

That was Tim Wu.

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