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Inside: The antitrust Twilight Zone; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2022/12/16/sch…
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The antitrust Twilight Zone: How rollups are destroying the productive economy and making the ultra-rich even richer.
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Hey look at this
* The Butterfly Effect fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-b…
* Reimagining Democracy schneier.com/blog/archives/…
* @EFF Agrees With the @NLRB: Workers Need Protection Against Bossware eff.org/deeplinks/2022… 3/
#20yrsago The music industry owes you $20 — and you can collect web.archive.org/web/2002120608…
#20yrsago DARPA’s magic PDA web.archive.org/web/2002120200…
#20yrsago RIAA cooked the books to invent “piracy problem” web.archive.org/web/2003011309… 4/
#15yrsago How Sony BMG lost its mind and rootkitted its CDs web.archive.org/web/2008112305…
#15yrsago Blender-shaped baby-bath flickr.com/photos/doctoro… 5/
#15yrsago Adults warn kids off social network sites, use them themselves — Pew Internet report on search and identity web.archive.org/web/2007121806…
#15yrsago Tin pregnancies of 18th cen. London web.archive.org/web/2007121902… 6/
#15yrsago Icelandic tourist to US held for two days, shackled, deported — over a ten-year-old visa mistake web.archive.org/web/2007121518…
#10yrsago @bunniestudios Huang is building a laptop bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=2686 7/
#10yrsago Disneyland Haunted Mansion in gingerbread haunteddimensions.raykeim.com/index130.html
#10yrsago Google’s daily Transparency Report data-dump includes all DMCA requests policybythenumbers.googleblog.com/2012/12/more-d… 8/
#5yrsago The CDC is why you and your loved ones aren’t dead. Trump just banned them from using the phrase “science-based.” washingtonpost.com/national/healt… 9/
#5yrsago Cities want to opportunistically lay fiber lines during big digs, but Koch dark money is trying to stop them wired.com/story/koch-bro…
#5yrsago Rogue One is a movie about internet freedom theverge.com/2017/12/15/167… 10/
Yesterday's threads: How cable monopolists tricked conservatives into shooting themselves in the face; and more!
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My latest book is Chokepoint Capitalism (with @rgibli), nonfiction about monopoly and fairness in creative labor markets.
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My latest novel is Attack Surface, a sequel to my bestselling Little Brother books, now in paperback, wherever books are sold.
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Upcoming appearances:
* Library Learning Experience/@ALALibrary (New Orleans), 1/27-30
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* Chokepoint Capitalism: Can It Be Defeated? (@UCLLaws), 2/1
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* @Aus_Digital Copyright Forum (Canberra), 2/17:
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* Antitrust, Regulation and the Political Economy (Brussels), 3/2:
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Recent appearances:
* New Books in Public Policy (@PitPolicy):
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* How to take back the arts from Big Tech (@TheRealNews)
* @dartsandletters:
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* @bubtroubpodcast (Part 2)
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