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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

24 Mar

A monopolist's first preference is always "don't regulate me." But coming in at a close second is "regulate me in ways that only I can comply with, so that no one is allowed to compete with me."

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A couple hundred mil for compliance SOUNDS like a lot but it's a BARGAIN if it excludes future competitors.

That's why Facebook and Youtube flipped and endorsed the EU plan to mandate hundreds of millions of euros' worth of copyright filters in 2019.

eff.org/deeplinks/2019…

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Mark Zuckerberg may be a mediocre sociopath with criminally stupid theories of human interaction that he imposes on 2.6 billion people, but he is an unerring bellwether for policies that will enhance Facebook's monopoly power.

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

24 Mar

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Green investing is a fraud; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/03/24/gre…

#Pluralistic

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Tonight, I'm participating in a Clarion Writing Workshop panel called "Balancing Worldbuilding and Narrative," with Karen Osborne and Kali Wallace

ucsd.zoom.us/webinar/regist…

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1374736048387878914

Green investing is a fraud: ESGs and other delusions.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1374736048387878914

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Cory Doctorow

@doctorow

24 Mar

The pandemic showed us just how slow the global ruling class to move through the stages of grief, often getting stuck in denial ("this isn't happening") and bargaining ("can't I just reopen one teensy little giant Tesla factory, pretty please?").

pluralistic.net/2021/02/15/uly…

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The climate emergency is a sterling example of how "market forces" are incompatible with the continued existence of a human-habitable Earth.

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Cons like "carbon offsets" are trivially corruptible and instantly become "markets for lemons," where the least effective climate measures produce the most profitable (and therefore most common) carbon credits, driving out all the good ones.

pluralistic.net/2020/12/12/fai…

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