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

And that like, if all of us are using the same search engine, that must mean that it's the best search engine.

Wouldn't it be weird to use public funds to punish a firm for pleasing the public?

So he was like, we should just allow these companies to get too big to fail.

And they'll never become too big to care.

It'll be fine.

The market will correct it.

So when we decided to start tolerating monopolies, we got monopolies, right?

We got them in everything.

Media, clearly, right?

Five publishers, four studios, three labels, two companies that control the apps and one company that does the eBooks and the audio books, right?

It's like why giving creative workers more copyright has not helped because it's like giving bullied kids extra lunch money, right?

Like they just say, oh yeah, you've got an extra 20 years of copyright.

We'll just put that in our contract now.

We're not going to give you more money.

So we had this idea that monopolies maybe were efficient and they're not.

And so we need to fix that.

And we've been here before.

You know the Lenny Bruce sketch about before there's a law, there has to be a crime?

No.

And he does this whole thing about like, how is it that we have a law against having sex with a chicken?

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