Cory Doctorow
speaker
525 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 31 Jul
Cory Doctorow’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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Your likelihood of voting for the fascist party, the reform party, goes way up.
Because you become a patsy for someone showing up and going, the reason you can't get the necessaries of life anymore is an undeserving outsider is getting what is your due.
This is the roots of fascism.
This is what scares me.
I'm not worried about AI making me into paperclips.
I'm worried about a bubble bursting and us doing more austerity and giving rise to even more powerful authoritarian and fascist movements.
Yeah, look, Margaret Thatcher, her favorite saying was, there is no alternative.
They actually called her Tina Thatcher.
There is no alternative.
And really, this is like an imagination extinguishing motto, right?
What she means is not there is no alternative to what I've delivered.
It's don't you dare try and think of an alternative.
And look, I'm a science fiction writer.
My job is to come up with six alternatives before breakfast.
And tech CEOs always practice vulgar Thatcherism.
Mark Zuckerberg wants you to think that there's no way you can talk to your friends without him listening in.
Tim Cook wants you to think there's no way you can have a reliable phone unless he controls which software you install and takes 30 cents out of every dollar you spend.
Google wants you to think that there's no way for you to search the web unless they're spying on you, right?
Like, these are separable activities.
There's no reason to do both.
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