#monopolies — Public Fediverse posts
Live and recent posts from across the Fediverse tagged #monopolies, aggregated by home.social.
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#GavinNewsom and SLEAZEBAG Dems Bend the Knee to Zionist Media Billionaires (#AlvaroBedoya)
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‘Intellectual property law does not, in truth, exist to defend natural rights that individuals hold over their works. This isn’t how IP law came to be, when it was first developed as an extension of guild regulation in eighteenth-century England. Nor is it how it is legally justified in the United States, whose Constitution’s first article grants to Congress the power to make laws “to promote the Progress of Science and useful Arts, by securing for limited Times to Authors and Inventors the exclusive Right to their respective Writings and Discoveries.” As the first subclause makes clear, the purpose of copyrights and patents is to incentivize authors and inventors by promising them a set of time-limited rights, akin to a temporary monopoly, over the dissemination of their works.’ https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/to-whom-does-the-world-belong/?utm_source=Boston+Review+Email+Subscribers&utm_campaign=6e34cfbca5-from_the_archive_1_11_26_COPY_01&utm_medium=email&utm_term=0_2cb428c5ad-6e34cfbca5-41310080&mc_cid=6e34cfbca5&mc_eid=ebcd06e721
Or #ai is artificial information processing, generating slop in a feedback loop, that will end corporate sovereignty. As fewer and fewer profit from ownership, ownership in its ‘deathless’ system of annihilating mimicry has given us a virus that it has no antidote for? Only a #foundation built on the ethically sustainable and creative intuitions ground on the science of logic can do that! #antitrust #monopolies #Ouroboros #CorporateMythology #CorporateGiven #CorporateSovereignty #philosophy #CreativeRights #IP #DiverseRights #RepublicSovereignty #DialecticPrinciple
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"... framing the debate is so important. We have to take back terms like "productivity," so it means "making things that we need more of," not "making more things." Governments can use taxation, procurement and regulation to coerce, convince, or woo private firms into producing these things – and governments can produce them directly." -Cory Doctorow
https://pluralistic.net/2026/09/11/mazzucato-thought/#defining-the-debate
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Yon blue skiers, sky blowers, sky bluers, blowskies, Blue Sky groupies: https://bsky.app/profile/mxverda.bsky.social/post/3mvcjkhiauk2z
#BlueSky #Youtube #POSSE #indie #web #internet #tinternet #online #you #video #videos #VideoEssay #VideoEssayist #VideoEssayists #CrossPost #fandom #critique #shit #enshittification #capitalism #crapitalism #google #googletube #yougle #yoogle #tech #BigTech #monopoly #monopolies
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#Democracy is incompatible with unrestrained #capitalism. #Monopolies powered the #Nazi war machine 85 years ago.
General public knows that #CorporatePower is a big, rising, and terrifying problem. But regulators don't seem to know what corporate power is.
On #antitrust, the #EU buckled to #US under both #GeorgeBush (#Microsoft breakup) and #GeorgeWBush (#GE #Honeywell merger).
Now a new revolt against monopolization is brewing in #Europe.
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The #Enshittification of the American Hamburger
China blocked Argentinian beef for chloramphenicol, Europe blocked Brazilian beef for food safety reasons, and now Trump is importing it all to the US. But don't expect prices to fall much, the monopoly distributers will pocket the savings.Matt Stoler is my favorite blogger.
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-enshittification
Read more at: https://UncensoredNews.US/matt-stoler
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The idea that the gross over investment in technology is the solution to all our problems, is delusional on the grandest scale of delusions!
Also used as an argument to secure its boom is that new technology like Ai and AGi is inevitable and necessary to obtain a competitive advantage.
What is not much advertised, discussed, challenged and acted on are the current social, environmental, political and economic costs of the deregulated markets responsible for pushing the MAD investments of and in the technology of antitrust monopolies. They continue to undermine the benefits that result from democratic mediation, rights of diverse interests, peace, security, wellbeing and the flourishing that you get with ending the growth in inequality and injustice that their corporate sovereignty profits from! #Philosophy #Technology #ai #AGi #deregulation #Markets #MAD #antitrust #monopolies #corporatesovereignty #Delusions
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‘India’s government has intensified its crackdown on monopolistic practices in the tech sector, targeting industry giants such as Apple, Google and Amazon, while also proposing a Digital Competition Bill aimed at curbing foreign dominance and strengthening the domestic market.’
Something the US, UK and European courts have failed to do even though 20+ millions of those Nations people died fighting fascists cults in WW2! Antitrust monopolies finance fascist cults in exchange for tax cuts to benefit the ultra wealthy and policies for the hegemonic control of corporate capital. #shameful #monopolies #WW3 #GreedAndPower #MobRule #Philosophy #RightsAbuse #LeadingFromCorruption #Antitrust #CorporateSovereigntyIsEvil #TheRepublicsFederation
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The quoted text is the end of Google’s #Ai overview to the OP:
‘If you are exploring a specific philosophical paper, book, or argument that ties Hume directly to these geopolitical outcomes, let me know! We can dive deeper into the specific dialectic principles or texts you are examining.’
but #Ai whether generative or not, is not a ‘me’. Me is self-conscious and #LLMs are not even a framework that can push a template of consciousness. Automated information ground on #IP scraping is just designed to mimic intelligence to control the expropriation of capital! Can it be reconfigured to be in opposition to the antitrust growth in monopolies serving the unsustainable interests in non-renewables? #AiPhilosophy #Antitrust #monopolies #philosophy
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Replying to someone else's feed I found this: a short read on how Thomas Edison and his cronies were monopolistic assholes about motion pictures, leading independent film studios to create movie stars and Hollywood.
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@sabrinkmann
#monopolies like the one you mentioned tend to zuck up everything while the #fedi, as I understand it, prefers to #federate and link instead. So, can't an actor provide a clickable, say matrix, handle? Has it to be mandatory? Has it to be a certain protocol? #AP? Or can there be #choice?P.S.: auto-discovery via #webfinger / #RFC7033?
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@Powerfromspace1 it's called "#Competition instead of #Monopolies", but #Europe has been a little slow to wake up 💤
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"Last year, Jenkins published Music Copyright, Creativity, and Culture, an Oxford University Press title that fuses her scholarly and popular work in a generalist textbook on the legal framework for music that will forever change how you think about music. Now, a second edition, with a lengthy section on new music litigation, AI copyright fights, and the issue of uncompensated labor is available as an open access download:
https://web.law.duke.edu/cspd/musiccopyright/
Music Copyright weaves together the economic, cultural, political and artistic history of music, pulling on historic threads ranging from antiquity to medieval Europe to the age of mechanical reproduction to describe changing views of musicians, their audiences, and religious and political leaders on what constituted music, who was allowed to make music, and what music was for. In so doing, she firmly establishes the extremely contingent nature of our present-day norms around music, showing that the "natural" present-day assumptions about who gets paid, who pays, and when payment (or permission) is required are anything but, and are always in flux.
For obvious reasons, much of Jenkins' text describes these changes in the context of the record, the radio, satellite transmission, P2P file-sharing, and digital sampling (along with a chapter on AI). These examples are liberally illustrated with links to musical excerpts that bring the subject to life (these are presented as hotlinks in the ebook; if you're reading the print edition, you can use the book's companion website:)"
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A federal disclosure rule is offering new insight on the effect of healthcare monopolies on pricing, following a wave of U.S. mergers. #wellness #healthcare #monopolies
Posted into FLIPBOARD EXCHANGE FEED 🗞️ @flipboard-exchange-feed-Econopass
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How hospital monopolies are driving up the cost of your health care - The Washington Post
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"If I want to make myself really angry about the enshittified state of the internet, I don’t fume over pages of slop-drenched, spam-drowned Google results; nor about the fake-review garlanded sub-Temu garbage on Amazon. I don’t even rage against Elon Musk’s child porn–choked, bot-infested Twitter.
No, when I want to get good and apoplectic about the internet, I think about policymakers. Specifically, I think about all the policymakers I’ve met and corresponded with and begged with and pleaded with and raged against in my twenty-five years with the Electronic Frontier Foundation.
These policymakers are the true authors of our misery. It was they who made decisions that had the foreseeable and foreseen outcome of ushering in the enshittocene, this era in which all of our technology is turning into shit. The thing is, we told them exactly what would happen if they made those policy blunders, and they made them anyway, and now they walk among us, disclaiming any responsibility for systematically rigging the game so that the worst people with the worst ideas make the most money.
It’s as though we used to put down rat poison, and we didn’t have a rat problem, and then these guys told us that we had it all wrong and we didn’t need the rat poison after all. Now, rats are eating our faces off, and these guys refused to accept that their pro-rat policies had anything to do with it. They say we’re living through the Time of the Rat, in which the great forces of history and the iron laws of economics have combined to create rats of unheard-of fecundity. When we point out the rats have bought and shuttered the rat poison factories, they get defiant
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For decades, we allowed companies like Google and Facebook and Amazon to violate competition law. We let them buy their major competitors...https://www.bostonreview.net/articles/what-was-the-internet/
#Capitalism #OpenWeb #BigTech #PublicInfrastructures #Antitrust #Monopolies #Oligopolies
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Grocery prices are up 33% in the past seven years.
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Digital sovereignty and the AI narrative
Cory Doctorow thinks tech executives' story about AI is not an inevitability
"Bubbles are really evil. They transfer money from everyday savers to insiders who lie about market opportunities. And those everyday savers are just trying to avoid like, being homeless and starving to death in their old age."
"We have to really be focused on that fine distinction because it is in that distinction that the narrative that drives the investment, that drives the bubble, it's in that, that's where it lives."
"We live in an environment that is the end stage of 40 years of lax competition enforcement in which cartels, monopolies, and duopolies dominate most sectors of our economy. And they believe correctly that when there are fewer options to shop for, you can lower quality without losing sales because you're the only game in town. And so, in a world of statistical inference tools and monopolies, firing workers and replacing them with software to produce lower quality outputs, is not an unreasonable bet that you could make it work, but there's nothing inevitable about it."
"If Donald Trump turned off all of our chatbots tomorrow, what would change? Which government ministry would be unable to do his job? Which important firm would go out of business?" >>
https://www.abc.net.au/news/2026-08-08/cory-doctorow-on-the-ai-bubble-and-inevitability/106982988
#technology #AI #DigitalSovereignty #finance #markets #ToxicAssets #bubble #narrative #DeepSeek #Mastodon #Sovereignty #InternetCultures #monopolies #governance -
"If Kagi (a startup with a handful of engineers) can extract useful search results from Google's databases, then Google – a thrice-convicted monopolist that's had its pick of thousands of the top computer scientists from the world's most prestigious universities for a generation – could also do so.
They just choose not to.
They're too big to fail. They're too big to jail. They're too big to care.
Google's AI search isn't a way to fix its broken core product: it's a way to partially remediate the damage Google itself inflicted on the open internet, while imprisoning the web in a walled garden that would make Steve Jobs drool:
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It's a deadly combination: Google has committed hundreds of billions to stock buybacks and its AI money-furnace, financed by mass layoffs targeting the people who keep the core services useful. The too-big-to-care company is still the internet's gatekeeper, but half the guards at the gate have been fired and the other half have pulled so much overtime that they keep falling asleep on the job.Google has become a scammer's paradise.
Take Google's "answer box." This is the part of the search results page that tries to answer your query directly, without sending you elsewhere for that info. Back in 2023, Google's Answer Box was taken over by scammers who impersonated airline help desks. When Google's users searched for airlines' toll-free phone numbers, Google directed them to phones that rang in the scammers' boiler room, where they were tricked into giving up their passport info and credit card numbers to boiler-room thieves:"
https://pluralistic.net/2026/08/05/absentee-landlord/
#Google #Search #SearchEngines #AI #AISearch #Scams #AIOverview #BigTech #Monopolies #Antitrust
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Radio workers hope to resurrect stations axed by Big Media
Co-op ownership might prove a more sustainable model than corporate rapaciousness#Canada #cdnpoli #canadianmedia #radio #monopolies #oligopolies
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uHkN8DUpn9E
A deep dive into 'the financials' & concerns about the pending merger of Paramount and Warner. Global Implications for #media, #movies, #monopolies, #politics & #CNN
> A judge just froze Paramount’s proposed $110 billion acquisition of Warner Bros. Discovery for 14 days. California and 11 other states argue the Paramount-Warner Bros. merger would reduce competition in theatrical films, major blockbusters, and basic cable programming.
