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Cory Doctorow: Big Tech, EU Copyright Directive, & the Chinafication of the Internet

Published 6 years, 7 months ago

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Geopolitics & Empire · Cory Doctorow: Big Tech, EU Copyright Directive, & the Chinafication of the Internet #113

Cory Doctorow discusses the oligarchic or monopoly power amassed by Big Tech (e.g. Facebook, Google, Amazon), their business model of surveillance capitalism, the need for anti-trust reform, the futility of using alternative systems, the EU Copyright Directive, and the Chinafication of the internet. He also discusses his fascinating science fiction work.

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About the Guest

Cory Doctorow (craphound.com) is a science fiction novelist, blogger and technology activist. He is the co-editor of the popular weblog Boing Boing (boingboing.net), and a contributor to many magazines, websites and newspapers. He is a special consultant to the Electronic Frontier Foundation (eff.org), a non-profit civil liberties group that defends freedom in technology law, policy, standards and treaties. He holds an honorary doctorate in computer science from the Open University (UK), where he is a Visiting Professor; he is also a MIT Media Lab Research Affiliate and a Visiting Professor of Practice at the University of South Carolina’s School of Library and Information Science. In 2007, he served as the Fulbright Chair at the Annenberg Center for Public Diplomacy at the University of Southern California.

His novels have been translated into dozens of languages and are published by Tor Books, Head of Zeus (UK), Titan Books (UK) and HarperCollins (UK). He has won the Locus, Prometheus, Copper Cylinder, White Pine and Sunburst Awards, and been nominated for the Hugo, Nebula and British Science Fiction Awards.

His recent books include RADICALIZED (2019) and WALKAWAY (2017), science fiction for adults; IN REAL LIFE, a young adult graphic novel created with Jen Wang (2014); and INFORMATION DOESN’T WANT TO BE FREE, a business book about creativity in the Internet age (2014).

His latest young adult novel is HOMELAND, the bestselling sequel to 2008’s LITTLE BROT