Cory Doctorow
speaker
2,714 appearances
9 recordings
1 series
first heard May 2026
last heard yesterday
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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These three come off as the most colossal of assholes, cruel, petty, and predatory.
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Sandberg comes across as a sexual abuser who dreams of trafficking in poor people's organs.
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Kaplan is an oaf whose plan to provide paid internet access to refugee camps falls apart once he learns that refugees in camps don't have any money.
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He also takes points off of Wynne Williams' workplace evaluation for being, quote, unresponsive over a period when she was in a near-death coma.
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Worst of all, though, is Zuckerberg, whose sins range from cheating at settlers of Catan to endangering the Colombian peace protest after a 50-year civil war because he refused to get out of bed before noon.
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Zuck is also revealed to have given the Chinese state access to all of Facebook and the power to censor content they disliked as part of a failed bid to get permission to offer a Facebook service in China.
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It's a terrible company, with awful products, run by the worst people.
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Wynne Williams' conditions of employment required her to sign a contract that bound her to silence, non-disclosure, forbade her from speaking ill of the company, non-disparagement, and denied her access to the legal system in all her dealings with Meta, binding arbitration.
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Together, these three clauses, routinely used by Meta to silence would-be whistleblowers, meant that after Wynne Williams' book was published, Meta got its arbitrator, a lawyer who was paid by Meta to adjudicate contractual disputes instead of an actual judge, to order her to never promote or even speak about her book.
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The arbitrator awarded Mehta $50,000 for each criticism that Wynne Williams levied, quickly coming to a total of over $111 million.
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This vastly exceeds the assets and lifetime earning potential of Wynne Williams and her husband, a reporter with the Financial Times.
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If this bill ever truly comes due, they will be wiped out.
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Which raises an interesting question.
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What else can they do to her?
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Once they've secured civil damages that exceed her net worth several times over, why shouldn't she just flout her agreement?
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Freedom's just another word for nothing left to lose and all that.
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Nevertheless, Wynne Williams has scrupulously hewed to the arbitrator's rules, steadfastly remaining silent about her book, its contents, and her experience at Facebook slash Meta.
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When she and I appeared on stage in London for the launch of my book and shitification last year, she fell silent and assumed a blank expression any time the subject of Meta came up, and she didn't sign or sell books afterward.
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when she won the British Book Award.
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She did not speak to accept it, and the cover of her book was blurred out on the overhead screen.
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