#Monopolies

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Privacy Without Monopoly; Broad Band; $50T moved from America's 90% to the 1%; and more!Archived at: https://pluralistic.net/2021/02/13/data-protection-without-monopoly/#Pluralistic
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The media would have you believe it’s 50/50 whether people want to return to the office or continuing to work remotely after Covid-19The reality is far clearer[ a thread ]
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It took decades after the passage of America's landmark antitrust laws - the Sherman Act and the Clayton Act - for trustbusting to occur in earnest, and what spurred the
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1/n "In the 21st Century, market power and digital power are synonymous." -Nandini Chami#digitalcommons @E_S_G @bhargirao @leofsaldanha @SEWABharat @ITforChange @SEWAFed 2/n “We’re seeing the emergence of winner-takes-all busi
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Right. I’m going to try to live tweet this morning’s meeting of @LordsEUCom on #stateaid, taking evidence from Paul Scully (the relevant Minister at BEIS) and Jessica Blakely, Director of
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We are living in a golden age of predatory capitalism, in which businesses that generate real value and stable employment are being destroyed by deep-pocketed quasi-tech firms that lose money
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The news today from Washington signals the biggest victory in the field of #CollegeInPrison in decades. It’s a long time coming. This undoes the #94crimebill’s ban on #Pell Grants for
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Let's be honest. Things are rough. Trump is growing more desperate by the day and the fascist actions in Portland are beyond alarming.I want to talk about hope.About how we're
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I have a favor to ask of you. I don't often ask readers for stuff, but this is maybe the most important ask of my career. It's a Kickstarter -
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Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).Inside: Thinking through Mitch McConnell's plea for comity; Further, on Mitch McConnell and comity; Understanding the aftermath of r/wallstreetbets; and more!Archived at: https://pluralisti
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This Day in Labor History: June 26, 1894. The American Railway Union, led by Eugene Debs, called for a boycott in solidarity with striking workers at Pullman, Illinois. Let's talk
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woah. just had time today to review Australia's report on adtech (222 pages!) - hands-down the best report I've ever seen on adtech complex - creates an overwhelmingly clear picture
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I’m not sure if this is the granularity you are expecting. Some of these concepts are bigger than others. I invented exactly none of them. The list is not exhaustive.
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#Right2SayNo (A Thread)20+ years ago a man named Mark Caruso came around Xolobeni in the Wild Coast, Eastern Cape. He soon discovered that their land was rich in minerals and
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1/ In @lawfareblog, we (@berinszoka & @aricohn) make mincemeat out of Professor Hamburger's recent @WSJopinion op-ed, which fundamentally misunderstands #Section230 & the First Amendment, and proposes a solution that doesn't
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The writing rampage continues..My latest piece:America is Dead.Long Live Bitcoin!"What was once the land of the free, is now the land of confusion".https://svetski.medium.com/america-is-dead-dd0dd8ebd3e9 2/ 2020 will be known as t
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