#antimonopoly — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #antimonopoly, aggregated by home.social.
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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We need more #antiTrust and #antiMonopoly laws.
We need more #union protections and #proWorker laws.
We need TIGHT REGULATION over Silicon Valley tech companies AND strong, bribe-proof sentences for those willing to burn our rights, our intellectual property, our jobs, or our planet.
We need #rightToPrivacy and #bodilyAutonomy and #humanRights laws with teeth and politicians afraid to dare question them.
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/30/rupture/
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Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. [Unofficial] @[email protected] ·Pluralistic: Carneyism without Carney (30 May 2026)
https://web.brid.gy/r/https://pluralistic.net/2026/05/30/rupture/
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The Bundestag has passed the government's fuel‑price package. Known as the Fuel Price Adjustment Act, it was approved on Thursday with votes from the Union, SPD... https://news.osna.fm/?p=39721 | #news #antimonopoly #daily #increase #one
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I know the Critical Drinker isn't a fan favourite with everyone in the fediverse. If I'm honest - and I always try to be - that's part of what makes CD videos a guilty pleasure for me.
Anyway, my recent invective against 'identi-Moonies' probably had most of those people urging their mods to nuke my account from orbit. So if you're seeing this, you're probably capable of at least some degree of nuanced thought.
Mission accomplished. Moving on ...
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I know the Critical Drinker isn't a fan favourite with everyone in the fediverse. If I'm honest - and I always try to be - that's part of what makes CD videos a guilty pleasure for me.
Anyway, my recent invective against 'identi-Moonies' probably had most of those people urging their mods to nuke my account from orbit. So if you're seeing this, you're probably capable of at least some degree of nuanced thought.
Mission accomplished. Moving on ...
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Why it matters:
Consolidation like this hands more power to a single media company, hurts competition, and lets executives squeeze higher fees from pay-TV providers — which means higher bills and fewer local jobs.
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I just remembered one other thing I wanted to comment on from this edition of the Bradbury Group;
Which was Bomber's advocacy for a state-backed supermarket chain. With all due respect to Comrade Bradbury, this is right up there with GST off fruit and veges as far as uninspiring policy goes.
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I just remembered one other thing I wanted to comment on from this edition of the Bradbury Group;
Which was Bomber's advocacy for a state-backed supermarket chain. With all due respect to Comrade Bradbury, this is right up there with GST off fruit and veges as far as uninspiring policy goes.
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Just spent the day setting up some devops scripts for bringing up a branded and secured self-hosted Jitsi Meet video conferencing server droplet on digitalocean for business meetings for the FOSH accessibility non-profit, @bce .
#foss #fosh #freesoftware #boycottgoogle #boycottapple #boycottmicrosoft #antimonopoly #jitsi #security #privacy #devops #digitalocean #droplet
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Just spent the day setting up some devops scripts for bringing up a branded and secured self-hosted Jitsi Meet video conferencing server droplet on digitalocean for business meetings for the FOSH accessibility non-profit, @bce .
#foss #fosh #freesoftware #boycottgoogle #boycottapple #boycottmicrosoft #antimonopoly #jitsi #security #privacy #devops #digitalocean #droplet
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Kleine #Weihnachtsbastelei für #BalkonSolar: Wir haben auf einem alten Meerschweinchen Gehege eine Abfolge von #StäubliMC4 mit Steckern mit kompatiblen Gleichstrom Steckern anderer Hersteller verbunden.
Kommt bald aufs Dach.
Danke an @ce
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Kleine #Weihnachtsbastelei für #BalkonSolar: Wir haben auf einem alten Meerschweinchen Gehege eine Abfolge von #StäubliMC4 mit Steckern mit kompatiblen Gleichstrom Steckern anderer Hersteller verbunden.
Kommt bald aufs Dach.
Danke an @ce
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Endlich führt die Uni #WireGuard über #EduVPN ein – und wir sind sehr begeistert! 🎉 Danke an das URZ, dass die Uni aus der #Cisco‑ASA‑Monopol‑Abhängigkeit löst und damit mehr Sicherheit & #Freiheit für uns Studis schafft. Open‑Source‑Lösungen stärken Transparenz und #Unabhängigkeit. 🙏🚀
#ciscoASA #CVE202520333 #CVE202520362 #StaySafeOnline #SecurityAwareness #UniVPN #CampusNetwork #GPLv2 #URZ #AntiMonopoly
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Endlich führt die Uni #WireGuard über #EduVPN ein – und wir sind sehr begeistert! 🎉 Danke an das URZ, dass die Uni aus der #Cisco‑ASA‑Monopol‑Abhängigkeit löst und damit mehr Sicherheit & #Freiheit für uns Studis schafft. Open‑Source‑Lösungen stärken Transparenz und #Unabhängigkeit. 🙏🚀
#ciscoASA #CVE202520333 #CVE202520362 #StaySafeOnline #SecurityAwareness #UniVPN #CampusNetwork #GPLv2 #URZ #AntiMonopoly
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Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions to breaking the power of monopolies and cartels once they're established. But maybe showing US and EU legislators that WIPO treaty rules against adversarial interoperation ("anti-circumvention") are working against the interests of most copyright holders could move the needle?
https://the.socialmusic.network/t/social-music-distribution-in-one-click/57/28
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Unfortunately, there are no easy solutions to breaking the power of monopolies and cartels once they're established. But maybe showing US and EU legislators that WIPO treaty rules against adversarial interoperation ("anti-circumvention") are working against the interests of most copyright holders could move the needle?
https://the.socialmusic.network/t/social-music-distribution-in-one-click/57/28
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Break then up, break them all up. Make companies automatically split into multiple like 15 companies when they get big enough to sway politics or the economies, so that choices are made where they belong, by people not bilkiknairss.
Billionairism pretends tyrant oligarchs are "rich dentists" when actually they are "Mafia Dons"
#monopoly #AntiMonopoly #netflix #warnrrs #control #billionaires #nihillionaires
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Break then up, break them all up. Make companies automatically split into multiple like 15 companies when they get big enough to sway politics or the economies, so that choices are made where they belong, by people not bilkiknairss.
Billionairism pretends tyrant oligarchs are "rich dentists" when actually they are "Mafia Dons"
#monopoly #AntiMonopoly #netflix #warnrrs #control #billionaires #nihillionaires
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"One of Biden's best photocopier kickers was and is Lina Khan. She embodies the incredible potential of a fully operational battle-station, which is to say that she embodies the awesome power of a skilled technocrat who is also deeply ethical and genuinely interested in helping the public."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
Best blog passage of 2025 😅
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"One of Biden's best photocopier kickers was and is Lina Khan. She embodies the incredible potential of a fully operational battle-station, which is to say that she embodies the awesome power of a skilled technocrat who is also deeply ethical and genuinely interested in helping the public."
#CoryDoctorow, 2025
https://pluralistic.net/2025/11/15/unconscionability/#standalone-authority
Best blog passage of 2025 😅
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"The leader of the party of consumers and taxpayers argued against a measure to increase competition and lower prices because it might upset incumbent capital. In that single statement, the party’s modern priority was laid bare: protecting established businesses now trumps the creation of competitive markets for consumers. The 'consumer' in the party’s name has been forgotten entirely."
#BryceEdwards, 2026
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"The leader of the party of consumers and taxpayers argued against a measure to increase competition and lower prices because it might upset incumbent capital. In that single statement, the party’s modern priority was laid bare: protecting established businesses now trumps the creation of competitive markets for consumers. The 'consumer' in the party’s name has been forgotten entirely."
#BryceEdwards, 2026
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Could someone please ping @ladyada for me? I sent her a message, but I'm not sure she checks her Mastodon account.
LinkedIn wanted to take a picture of my face to allow me to log in, so I'd prefer to not use LinkedIn to connect.
I'm planning to start a FOSS / FOSH nonprofit company to create accessibility products for the blind. We both worked in the MIT Media Lab at the same time. She's a hero of mine, and I was hoping to get a few cycles of her time, if she has a couple to spare. I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
#foss #fosh #nonprofit #antifa #antimonopoly #blind #accessibility #privacy #security
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Could someone please ping @ladyada for me? I sent her a message, but I'm not sure she checks her Mastodon account.
LinkedIn wanted to take a picture of my face to allow me to log in, so I'd prefer to not use LinkedIn to connect.
I'm planning to start a FOSS / FOSH nonprofit company to create accessibility products for the blind. We both worked in the MIT Media Lab at the same time. She's a hero of mine, and I was hoping to get a few cycles of her time, if she has a couple to spare. I'd really appreciate it. Thank you!
#foss #fosh #nonprofit #antifa #antimonopoly #blind #accessibility #privacy #security
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Dare ? « #Apple calls for changes to #antimonopoly laws and says it may stop shipping to the #EU »
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Dare ? « #Apple calls for changes to #antimonopoly laws and says it may stop shipping to the #EU »
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Seems to me it’s a simple concept — the concentration of wealth is a Bad Idea. Since capital tends to concentrate, it is one of the functions of government to oppose this tendency. That’s why we used to have antimonopoly laws and the like.
When you see government encouraging the concentration of wealth, check your wallet.Molly Ivins (1944-2007) American writer, political columnist [Mary Tyler Ivins]
Essay (1991-02), “Season of Drear,” The ProgressiveMore info about this quote: wist.info/ivins-molly/78877/
#quote #quotes #quotation #qotd #mollyivins #antimonopoly #capital #capitalism #concentrationofwealth #economicinjustice #government #kleptocracy #monopoly #plutocracy #publicpolicy #riches #wealth
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“As this report makes clear, the real danger is not just misinformation and other harmful content, but the concentrated power of tech monopolies who profit from its spread. These firms control the infrastructure of online life, curate public discourse, and operate with near-total impunity. Tackling online harm means confronting the power of the platforms themselves."
#MaxVonThun, Europe Director, #OpenMarkets Institute Europe, 2025
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“As this report makes clear, the real danger is not just misinformation and other harmful content, but the concentrated power of tech monopolies who profit from its spread. These firms control the infrastructure of online life, curate public discourse, and operate with near-total impunity. Tackling online harm means confronting the power of the platforms themselves."
#MaxVonThun, Europe Director, #OpenMarkets Institute Europe, 2025
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#TechHistory nerd side note:
One outcome of the 2001 antitrust case against BorgSoft was to stop them making all web browsing on Windows depend on Internet Exploiter. The Safari WebView on iThings does *exactly* what BorgSoft were forbidden from doing.
I'm guessing Goggle use various backhanded tricks to push app devs into using the Chrome WebView on Android. We're certainly at risk of future enshittification making it compulsory there too.
#AntiMonopoly prosecutors take note.
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#TechHistory nerd side note:
One outcome of the 2001 antitrust case against BorgSoft was to stop them making all web browsing on Windows depend on Internet Exploiter. The Safari WebView on iThings does *exactly* what BorgSoft were forbidden from doing.
I'm guessing Goggle use various backhanded tricks to push app devs into using the Chrome WebView on Android. We're certainly at risk of future enshittification making it compulsory there too.
#AntiMonopoly prosecutors take note.
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"I think that centrist suppression of the left has pushed 90 percent of the energy for major change into right wing nihilist movements, but the anti-corporate, #antimonopolist energy has not dissipated. It's formed a kind of invisible political wind that has filled the sails of these #antimonopoly projects all over the world."
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"I think that centrist suppression of the left has pushed 90 percent of the energy for major change into right wing nihilist movements, but the anti-corporate, #antimonopolist energy has not dissipated. It's formed a kind of invisible political wind that has filled the sails of these #antimonopoly projects all over the world."
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"My guest today has been part of that [right-left] convergence. As head of Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission, #LinaKhan’s efforts to break up corporate monopolies earned her praise from figures like Bannon and then-Senator (now vice president) JD Vance. So we’re going to talk with her about whether this interesting right-left overlap is likely to endure. And also, whether her #antimonopoly diagnosis actually addresses America’s deepest problems."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/lina-khan-monopolies-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.tgTq.KYGb283rjPkd&smid=url-share -
"My guest today has been part of that [right-left] convergence. As head of Joe Biden’s Federal Trade Commission, #LinaKhan’s efforts to break up corporate monopolies earned her praise from figures like Bannon and then-Senator (now vice president) JD Vance. So we’re going to talk with her about whether this interesting right-left overlap is likely to endure. And also, whether her #antimonopoly diagnosis actually addresses America’s deepest problems."
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/06/19/opinion/lina-khan-monopolies-trump.html?unlocked_article_code=1.QE8.tgTq.KYGb283rjPkd&smid=url-share -
"The Commerce Commission has calculated the supermarket duopoly extracts $1m in excess profits every day – profits, in other words, above and beyond those they would make in a competitive market. That $1m a day comes straight out of shoppers’ wallets."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/27-02-2025/we-need-to-stop-shadow-boxing-on-competition
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#AntiMonopoly #ComCom#SupermarketDuopoly
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"The Commerce Commission has calculated the supermarket duopoly extracts $1m in excess profits every day – profits, in other words, above and beyond those they would make in a competitive market. That $1m a day comes straight out of shoppers’ wallets."
#MaxRashbrooke, 2025
https://thespinoff.co.nz/business/27-02-2025/we-need-to-stop-shadow-boxing-on-competition
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#AntiMonopoly #ComCom#SupermarketDuopoly
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The dominance of kiwi news media by NZME/ OneRoof and Stuff/ TradeMe is starting to look disturbingly like the supermarket duopoloy.
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The dominance of kiwi news media by NZME/ OneRoof and Stuff/ TradeMe is starting to look disturbingly like the supermarket duopoloy.
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"Maybe, something like this [anti-genocide boycotts] will shame this will scare, or shame ... festivals or companies or whatever into making more ethical choices.
I mean, this is before we even get onto the antitrust case that the US DoJ is taking against TicketMaster and Live Nation, which is next March I think that starts. Big money is never clean."
#UnaMullally, 2025
https://nialler9.com/palestine-kneecap-and-why-artists-are-boycotting-music-festivals-podcast
#podcasts #Nialler9 #MusicFestivals #TicketMaster #LiveNation #AntiTrust #AntiMonopoly #USDOJ
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"Maybe, something like this [anti-genocide boycotts] will shame this will scare, or shame ... festivals or companies or whatever into making more ethical choices.
I mean, this is before we even get onto the antitrust case that the US DoJ is taking against TicketMaster and Live Nation, which is next March I think that starts. Big money is never clean."
#UnaMullally, 2025
https://nialler9.com/palestine-kneecap-and-why-artists-are-boycotting-music-festivals-podcast
#podcasts #Nialler9 #MusicFestivals #TicketMaster #LiveNation #AntiTrust #AntiMonopoly #USDOJ
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"In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.
This is the first time that Japan has issued such an order against any of the major U.S. technology companies referred to collectively as GAFAM — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
“By binding smartphone manufacturers and telecommunication carriers, Google has made it difficult for other competing search engine applications to be used on Android phones,” Saiko Nakajima, a senior investigator for digital platform operators at the commission, said.
“Google's conduct in this case has created a risk of impeding fair competition concerning transactions — thus, we have determined that this is an act in violation of the Antimonopoly Act,” she added."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/
#Japan #Google #Android #Monopolies #Antitrust #Competition #BigTech #Antimonopoly
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"In an unprecedented move, the Japan Fair Trade Commission on Tuesday issued a cease-and-desist order against Google for violating the country's anti-monopoly law by forcing manufacturers to preinstall the company’s apps on their Android smartphones.
This is the first time that Japan has issued such an order against any of the major U.S. technology companies referred to collectively as GAFAM — Google, Apple, Facebook, Amazon and Microsoft.
“By binding smartphone manufacturers and telecommunication carriers, Google has made it difficult for other competing search engine applications to be used on Android phones,” Saiko Nakajima, a senior investigator for digital platform operators at the commission, said.
“Google's conduct in this case has created a risk of impeding fair competition concerning transactions — thus, we have determined that this is an act in violation of the Antimonopoly Act,” she added."
https://www.japantimes.co.jp/business/2025/04/16/companies/google-anti-monopoly-law/
#Japan #Google #Android #Monopolies #Antitrust #Competition #BigTech #Antimonopoly
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Why in #Australia are there at least 50 private health insurance options (!) but only two major supermarket options, only two main telecom providers, and pretty much a single major hardware chain? It’s well past time for some serious #antimonopoly action.
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Why in #Australia are there at least 50 private health insurance options (!) but only two major supermarket options, only two main telecom providers, and pretty much a single major hardware chain? It’s well past time for some serious #antimonopoly action.
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My favourite of Cory Doctorow's solutions for dismantling the online advertising cartel of FarceBoom ("Meta") and Goggle ("Alphabet ");
"Ban surveillance-based “behavioral advertising,” forcing a switch to “contextual ads” (based on the content of articles, not the traits of readers), which will nullify tech giants’ data advantages."
@pluralistic, 2022
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/10/big-tech-isnt-stealing-news-publishers-content/
Governments can do this. Let's make them.
#advertising #DigitalAdvertising #AntiMonopoly #CoryDoctorow
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My favourite of Cory Doctorow's solutions for dismantling the online advertising cartel of FarceBoom ("Meta") and Goggle ("Alphabet ");
"Ban surveillance-based “behavioral advertising,” forcing a switch to “contextual ads” (based on the content of articles, not the traits of readers), which will nullify tech giants’ data advantages."
@pluralistic, 2022
https://pluralistic.net/2022/04/10/big-tech-isnt-stealing-news-publishers-content/
Governments can do this. Let's make them.
#advertising #DigitalAdvertising #AntiMonopoly #CoryDoctorow
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“ #Canada was the 1st country in the world to institute a federal, industrial-era #competitionlaw in 1889, one year before the #UnitedStates enacted its national #antimonopoly #law, the Sherman Act, in 1890.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians
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“ #Canada was the 1st country in the world to institute a federal, industrial-era #competitionlaw in 1889, one year before the #UnitedStates enacted its national #antimonopoly #law, the Sherman Act, in 1890.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians
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Folks... We have got to stop using Google as a verb.
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With a suite of #AntiMonopoly regulations like EU DMA/ DSA, we can move to services that respect our privacy, without getting cut off from folks who are still in the DataFarms. We can do the same based on other criteria too (software freedom, social benefit company structures, etc), and the DataFarmers can't just reacquire us, by buying their competitors without scrutiny.
We still need robust laws to protect privacy etc. But real consumer choice makes enforcement practical.
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Whichever administration takes power after this US Presidential election, USAmericans who don't want a handful of billionaires to control the internet need to demand they pass an equivalent of the EU's anti-monopoly rules in the Digital Markets Act and Digital Services Act. Something along the lines of the American Innovation and Choice Online Act;
https://www.congress.gov/bill/117th-congress/senate-bill/2992
