The Internet Con of Big Tech | A Drink with Cory Doctorow

Journalist, activist and science fiction author Cory Doctorow talked to Idler editor Tom Hodgkinson on how to smash Big Tech.
In this clip Cory presents a new picture of the internet and Big Tech.
Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction author, activist, and journalist. His latest book is The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation (Verso). He is the author of many other books, most recently Red Team Blues, a science fiction crime thriller; Chokepoint Capitalism, a nonfiction about monopoly and creative labour markets; the Little Brother series for young adults; In Real Life, a graphic novel; and the picture book Poesy the Monster Slayer. In 2020, he was inducted into the Canadian Science Fiction and Fantasy Hall of Fame.
This conversation was recorded as part of the Idler's weekly online event, A Drink with the Idler. The full recording is available to magazine and Academy subscribers. Visit the website to join: www.idler.co.uk/

[@merfymac]

For a chap who writes great imaginative fiction, Cory Doctorow’s commentary on contemporary society is weirdly superficial; and naïve.

[@clamato422]

@rossmanngroup
Is a guy who's been leading the movement for "right to repair".

[@TheIdlerAcademy]

Thank you for suggesting them!