You can say a lot about Doctorow but his writing usually gets republished in a lot of places. Last I checked, he has his Twitter feed, a Mastodon, hosts his stuff on Pluralistic and that last one is just a blog so he has an RSS feed too.
Granted this talk is not something he hosted, but generally speaking, Doctorow is the last one to make that argument with.
The guy is very good at outreach; the sad reality is that most people are on big walled garden platforms, so that's where you need to go to reach out. Him republishing his stuff to as many places as possible seems like the best of both worlds in that regard.
Ivory tower mentality is what gets us the FSF, and they have been awful at general outreach.
Granted this talk is not something he hosted, but generally speaking, Doctorow is the last one to make that argument with.
The guy is very good at outreach; the sad reality is that most people are on big walled garden platforms, so that's where you need to go to reach out. Him republishing his stuff to as many places as possible seems like the best of both worlds in that regard.
Ivory tower mentality is what gets us the FSF, and they have been awful at general outreach.