Cory Doctorow
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1,125 appearances
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1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Right.
I have an answer for you.
Yeah.
It...
It's kind of grounded in this punchline of my favorite joke from Eastern Canada.
The punchline is, if you wanted to get there, I wouldn't start from here.
Right?
Like we had a more robust enforcement system, like before we decided monopolies were efficient and we were just going to tolerate them.
So that happened in the Reagan years.
Have you ever heard anyone say, oh, that thing is so screwed up, it's really borked?
Have you ever heard borked?
No.
It's a saying about something that's really bad.
It's named after this guy who's a judge, Robert Bork.
who Reagan tried to put on the Supreme Court and he handled his confirmation hearing so badly that now we say things that are really screwed up for Bork.
I didn't even know that that was possible in America.
I thought you always get on the Supreme Court.
No, yeah, no, this was before, pre-Susan Collins.
So Bork's big idea was that monopolies are good.
And that they're efficient.
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