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Inside: The antitrust Twilight Zone; and more!

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The antitrust Twilight Zone: How rollups are destroying the productive economy and making the ultra-rich even richer.

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1603831231040323602

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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!

https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1603424726935805954

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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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My ebooks and audiobooks (from @torbooks, @HoZ_Books, @mcsweeneys, @beaconPressBks et al) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."

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* 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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