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The companies are multinational--why should labor still stick to borders?
Cory Doctorow
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Cory Doctorow
Age: 53
Born: 1971
Born: July 17
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City of Toronto
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Cory Efram Doctorow
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Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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For decades, computers have been helping us to remember, but now it's time for them to help us to ignore.
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The first casualty of any battle is the plan of attack.
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Conversation is king. Content is just something to talk about.
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The right to freedom of association is fine, but why shouldn't the cops be allowed to mine your social network to figure out if you're hanging out with gangbangers and terrorists?
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Open platforms and experimental amateurs eventually beat out the spendy, slick pros. Relying on incumbents to produce your revolutions is not a good strategy. They're apt to take all the stuff that makes their products great and try to use technology to charge you extra for it, or prohibit it altogether.
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When you teach your students that it's economically rational to commit crimes where the fines for misconduct are lower than the expected return on the crime, you instill a professional ethic that has no room for morals.
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I can't go underground for a year, ten years, my whole life, waiting for freedom to be handed to me. Freedom is something you have to take for yourself.
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Once you get to naming your laptop, you know that you're really having a deep relationship with it.
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... the Kindle is a roach motel device: its license terms and DRM ensure that books can check in, but they can't check out.
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