#monopolies — Public Fediverse posts

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

‘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

"... 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
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

"... 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
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

"... 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
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

"... 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
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

"... 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
#economics #PoliticalEconomy #monopolies #inequality #capitalism

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This #SpaceX Situation: Not Good!

by Jason Koebler, Feb 5, 2026

Excerpt: "There are many reasons that 'AI data centers in space' may be a pipe dream and may not happen, but what he is proposing is a magnitude of #SpaceJunk that no other company could plausibly promise to launch. Data centers or not, SpaceX is now dominating #LowEarthOrbit in a way no other company or country has. While Musk has been gutting the federal government, interfering in #elections, allowing people to generate #CSAM, engaging in white supremacy, planning trips to #EpsteinsIsland, implanting #chips into people’s brains, siphoning off taxpayer money to build ridiculous tunnels, giving his sperm to whoever will take it, turning his cars into experimental robot taxis, and pretending to build #HumanoidRobots, #SpaceX has somewhat (?) quietly #colonized and dominated low earth orbit.

"Musk has taken this space for his own use, concerns about #LightPollution, satellite collisions, and telecom #monopolies be damned. This has always been concerning, but explicitly intertwining the aspirations and fate of SpaceX with Musk’s CSAM generating social media website, his #AIBullshitMachines, and his right wing political project is horrifying and monopolistic. What happens next, I have no idea."

Read more:
https://www.404media.co/this-spacex-situation-not-good

Archived version:
https://archive.ph/vUubi

#TechBros #Technopoly #DarkSkies #SpacePollution #AISucks #DataCenters #SkyNet #KesslerEffect #KesslerSyndrome #USPol #WorldPol #SpaceNews #EpsteinFiles

"Then, back lit, filling the saloon doors, amid swirling dust, staring down the debauch...comes Lina Khan."

https://3m.fyi/posts/the-redemption-of-lawyers/

#LinaKhan #CoryDoctorrow #Monopolies #lawyers #PowellMemo #PowellMemorandum #Bork #Nixon #Reagan #AntiTrust #Oligarchs #Oligarchy #Plutocrats #Plutocracy #Trump #Law #BreakEmUp #Litigate #democracy #FTC #Mamdani #Zoran #NYC

The payoff from Thiel’s early gamble in Trump is a lesson that has not passed others by.

As with their other obsession, #crypto, the best time to have invested in Trump was 2016,
and the second best time is today.

We already have a word for what we’re watching now:
it’s #oligarchy.

And we’ve already seen how this plays out.

In Putin’s Russia, political and commercial interests are one and the same.

Thiel is betting
– again
– on the same phenomenon in America.

Betting that he will be first among a new breed of tech bro oligarchs
– a new super-class of #broligarchs.

In Trump’s America, there will be hard choices for everyone, including the billionaires. --
Though it may be less hard for them.

Vance has said he wants to #deregulate crypto and
unshackle AI.

He’s said he’d #dismantle Biden’s attempts to place safeguards around AI development.

And while he has it in for the #legacy #monopolies of Google and Facebook
– the platforms that his ideological bedfellows in the “new right” see as part of the “censorship industrial complex” suffocating rightwing speech
– Silicon Valley is betting on a gloves-off, regulation-free, pro-business #goldrush.

Another Peter Thiel acolyte was on stage at the Republican National Convention last week,
electrifying the crowd:
#Hulk #Hogan.

Hogan is less well known as one of Thiel’s longterm bets, though in some ways he’s even more instructive than Vance.

In 2007, the online magazine #Gawker outed Thiel and ran a series of unflattering articles about him.

It took him years, but he ultimately got his revenge, covertly funding Hulk Hogan to the tune of $10m to sue the publication for invasion of privacy and forcing it into #bankruptcy.

On stage at the RNC, the wrestler, a permatanned orange, ripped off his shirt for the man who increasingly looks like he’ll be America’s next president.

Or, if JD Vance, is correct, the man who will prove to be the #Caesar he says America needs.

A man who he has already urged to fire the nation’s civil servants to
💥 “replace them with our people”,
to defy the courts and rule his own way.

Or, to put this in simple terms:
to foment a #coup.

Thiel knows what every investor knows. That a crisis is an opportunity.

And that if Trump succeeds in tearing up the federal administration,
there is not only billions to be made in the ensuing market #turmoil but that a new breed of oligarchs,
close to Caesar’s throne, will be the first to share the spoils.

And chief among them will be Thiel.

It’s not a stretch to see how #Palantir, his data-mining company
– that under the Conservatives got its teeth into the NHS
– will profile and surveil and target Caesar’s enemies.

And Thiel’s track record in winning, in successfully betting on the longest of odds, on biding his time, is maybe the most chilling of all the factors in a fortnight that has started to feel like the start of a run on the bank.

Biden’s debate disaster,
Trump’s victorious assassination survival,
and now Silicon Valley’s ascension to the presidential ticket.

The broligarchs have made their move
– and the rest of us need to understand exactly what that means.

#tech #elite #Sandberg #Page #Bezos #Peter #Thiel #tech #bro #Vance #Elon #Musk #Marc #Andreessen #Ben #Horowitz #Winklevoss #Chamath #Palihapitiya #David #Sacks #Palantir #Vance #Mithril #Capital #Narya #Capital

From Robber Barons to #Bezos: Is #History Repeating Itself?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Nmq7QqqY4vo

We’re now in the Second #GildedAge. As in the first, #America’s #wealth is in the hands of a few, conspicuous #consumption exists alongside #homelessness and #hunger, #monopolies crush competition, money corrupts #politics, and #workingpeople are abused and #exploited.
The good news? Just like back then, we can fix it.