POOR SILICON VALLEY. FIRST IT ALIENATED THE RIGHT, AND NOW THE LEFTIES ARE TURNING ON IT. Cory Doctorow: Disruption for Thee, But Not for Me. The point here isn’t Cory Doctorow’s puerile politics and incomprehension of price mechanisms, but the fact that even lefty science fiction writers now view Big Tech as a hostile force. A politically smarter industry would have tried to hang on to more allies.