Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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And so you have investors, you have a reason to do this, right?
And then add to that the geopolitical stuff.
So Trump has been using his tech companies to shut down
his political adversaries in other countries.
So the judge at the International Criminal Court who swore an arrest warrant against Benjamin Netanyahu for genocide, Microsoft shut down all of his online accounts.
So he lost his working files, his email, his archives, his calendar.
He can't recover his password for any of the other services he uses because they all go to his Microsoft email address, which doesn't exist anymore.
And then Trump did it again.
to the high court justice in Brazil who sentenced his ally, Jair Bolsonaro, for attempting to steal the election in Brazil.
So then you have people all over the world going like, wait, isn't this what we were told China would do if we let them run our 5G?
And then you think about the fact that these Russian soldiers who stole these John Deere tractors and took them to Chechnya, that John Deere was able to push an over-the-air update that permanently immobilized them.
You're like, wait, he could do that to any tractor.
He could do that to all the tractors.
Right.
If like Trump wants to steal Greenland, he doesn't need to roll tanks into nuke.
He can just like go to Greenland and shut down the government and shut down all the tractors and shut down the cloud services and push updates to all the iOS devices that brick them and all the Android device.
Like he could straight of Hormuz all the licorice, Ozempic and Lego in the world.
With a click of a mouse.
So you have people all over the world who are like, God damn, we need to get off the American Internet.
And so you have a geopolitical wing of this, like NATSEC hawks, national security hawks, you have an entrepreneurial wing, and then you have the digital rights hippies like me who've been banging this drum for 25 years.
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