Cory Doctorow
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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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she gave an acceptance speech on behalf of her co-winner, the late Virginia Jeffrey, who was abused by Jeffrey Epstein and who accused Prince Andrew of sexual assault.
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Nevertheless, when she was booked to speak about a subject other than her book at the Hay Festival on a stage with Tim Wu and Carol Cadwallader, Meta sent a legal threat to the festival and Wynne Williams, claiming that by speaking about anything in public, she would violate the arbitrator's order.
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Accordingly, Wynne Williams maintained total silence and a blank facial expression for an hour on stage, saying not one word, while Wu and Cadwallader carried on a discussion.
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Careless Pipo was withdrawn from the festival bookshop on the day she appeared there.
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Nevertheless, Meta has informed Wynne Williams that her silent, motionless appearance on a stage constitutes a further breach of her agreement and that they are going to seek even more damages from her.
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This act of anti-ice cream thuggery has pushed Wynne Williams over the edge and now she's sued to invalidate her contract.
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Her lawyers have posted their documents related to the suit, including a 285-page declaration by Wynne Williams explaining the great lengths she's gone to in order to comply with Meta's demands and the company's absolute intransigence and arbitrary menace.
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Why would Meta be so intent on destroying this one high-profile whistleblower?
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Surely they've heard of the Streisand effect.
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There is no better way to ensure that Wynne Williams' book, already a New York Times number one bestseller, continues to attract readers than to continue to escalate these threats.
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I think they're perfectly aware that they are convincing more people to read Careless People.
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You should read it, too.
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It's genuinely excellent.
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But I think they've decided that this is a price worth paying because, A, they've done even worse things since when Williams parted ways with the company, and B,
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B, they're laying off thousands of workers because their giant bet on AI has been a flop, leaving them with a massive cash crunch.
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And C, by destroying Sarah Wynn Williams, they can terrorize all of those thousands of bitter ex-employees into silence about the even graver sins the company has committed.
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That's my theory anyway.
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Lukashenko knew that by arresting children for eating ice cream, it would make him a laughingstock abroad.
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Zuckerberg knows that threatening Wynne Williams for standing in wooden silence on a stage makes him look like history's most guillotinable billionaire.
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But both Lukashenko and Zuckerberg are willing to be thought a thin-skinned bully, so long as that means that the people that they oppress the most are too terrified to ever challenge their authority.
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