At PyCon US 2025, attendees were in for a treat: activist/blogger/science fiction author Cory Doctorow‘s keynote on the dangers of big-tech’s platform domination.
Doctorow had a ready answer when I asked him why this topic for a convention of Python programmers. Because big tech companies “are so pervasive, so structurally important, and so profoundly degraded that there is literally not an audience on Earth that they wouldn’t be appropriate for.”
Traveling around the world, Doctorow’s shared the same examples when keynoting the…