#monopolists — Public Fediverse posts

Ah, the sweet, melodramatic cry of #monopolists realizing their castle walls were made of tissue paper all along! 😂 Who knew that a bunch of scrappy, open-source AI models could barge in and wreck the party faster than you can say "valuation collapse"? 🏰💥 Looks like the only moat around here is filled with the tears of disillusioned investors. 💸💧
https://www.warman.life/blog/2026-04-27-the-moat-or-the-commons/ #open-sourceAI #valuationcollapse #techhumor #investmenttears #HackerNews #ngated

https://www.thenation.com/article/economy/lina-khan-zohran-mamdani-new-york-city-trust-busting/

Onward and upward - #Mamdani #LinaKhan

Down with the #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #monopolists

#justice #humanrights #democracy

I switched to Bell Internet two months ago. Today, I got a notification that my monthly fee is going up by $4. WTF???

#monopolists

@Quasit

Not really, no. Of course, just replace "one company" with "the government", and your first two claims are the explicit goals of the #socialist.

Like I've said before, #socialists are the ultimate #monopolists; there is no greater #monopoly than the government owning all the means of production; AKA, #socialism.

While big-upping this channel, another great one about the inherent dangers of monopolies/semi-monopolies & planned obsolescence: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j5v8D-alAKE

Some might see this as political, & it partly is, but it's a crucial tech issue at its core.

Also, this is definitely a @pluralistic topic. Cory Doctorow's written about this a *lot* in an essential way for clear understanding of the deep issues.

#RightToRepair #PlannedObsolescence #Veritasium #IndustryCartels #monopolies #monopolists

It was reporters and editors for the hundreds of independent newspapers during the First Gilded Age (1880-1900) era that led the crusades against #Rockefeller and his fellow #monopolists.

Investigative journalism was all the rage then, and it fed public demand for a return to #competition and the de-throning of that age’s #oligarchs.

The vast majority of workers were struggling and they worked for a very small 10 percent of the population who controlled most of the nation’s wealth (a situation we’re at again).

The result was constant strife, #strikes, and the murder of labor leaders;
entire towns were in arms (and sometimes ablaze) with #labor conflict.

The “problem of labor”was the number one issue of the day.
As President Grover Cleveland
— the only Democrat elected during that period
— proclaimed in his 1887 State of the Union address:

“As we view the achievements of aggregated capital, we discover the existence of trusts, combinations, and monopolies,
🆘 while the citizen is struggling far in the rear or is trampled to death beneath an iron heel.
⚠️Corporations, which should be the carefully restrained creatures of the law and the servants of the people, are fast becoming the people’s masters.”

... But back to Jeff #Bezos and his 2013 purchase of The #Washington #Post.

https://hartmannreport.com/p/democracy-dies-in-their-wallets-when-ec9

FINALLY some big media attention over the mystery illness that struck my province - only to be swept under the rug via political interference, even ruining the career of the only doctor those 50+ patients had.

What was found most likely to be responsible was the rampant usage of defoliants, specifically #glyphosate by none other than JD #irving - brother to #irvingOil.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240815025816/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/magazine/canada-brain-disease-dementia.html

#blaineHiggs #oligarchs #monopolists #climateDestroyers #profitsOverPeople

#LANDBACK #LANDBACK #LANDBACK

FINALLY some big media attention over the mystery illness that struck my province - only to be swept under the rug via political interference, even ruining the career of the only doctor those 50+ patients had.

What was found most likely to be responsible was the rampant usage of defoliants, specifically #glyphosate by none other than JD #irving - brother to #irvingOil.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240815025816/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/magazine/canada-brain-disease-dementia.html

#blaineHiggs #oligarchs #monopolists #climateDestroyers #profitsOverPeople

#LANDBACK #LANDBACK #LANDBACK

FINALLY some big media attention over the mystery illness that struck my province - only to be swept under the rug via political interference, even ruining the career of the only doctor those 50+ patients had.

What was found most likely to be responsible was the rampant usage of defoliants, specifically #glyphosate by none other than JD #irving - brother to #irvingOil.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240815025816/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/magazine/canada-brain-disease-dementia.html

#blaineHiggs #oligarchs #monopolists #climateDestroyers #profitsOverPeople

#LANDBACK #LANDBACK #LANDBACK

FINALLY some big media attention over the mystery illness that struck my province - only to be swept under the rug via political interference, even ruining the career of the only doctor those 50+ patients had.

What was found most likely to be responsible was the rampant usage of defoliants, specifically #glyphosate by none other than JD #irving - brother to #irvingOil.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240815025816/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/magazine/canada-brain-disease-dementia.html

#blaineHiggs #oligarchs #monopolists #climateDestroyers #profitsOverPeople

#LANDBACK #LANDBACK #LANDBACK

FINALLY some big media attention over the mystery illness that struck my province - only to be swept under the rug via political interference, even ruining the career of the only doctor those 50+ patients had.

What was found most likely to be responsible was the rampant usage of defoliants, specifically #glyphosate by none other than JD #irving - brother to #irvingOil.

https://web.archive.org/web/20240815025816/https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/14/magazine/canada-brain-disease-dementia.html

#blaineHiggs #oligarchs #monopolists #climateDestroyers #profitsOverPeople

#LANDBACK #LANDBACK #LANDBACK

By @RichardJMurphy:

'#KamalaHarris could say, “I am going to defeat the #monopolists who are #gouging profits out of the markets & suppressing #wages in the #US economy.”

She would break #politics in the US free from the power of corporate influence, which is very heavily related to the power of the monopoly-owning #billionaires.

She could require that these companies like #Google operate fairly & appropriately in all markets, including the #UK, the #EU, & way beyond'

https://www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2024/08/07/google-is-a-monopolist-what-next/

Supporters of the appeal to the German Rectors’ Conference #HRK have posted their comments on the openpetition platform

Maria Chiara Pievatolo from #Pisa:
„#Universities should own their #communication and their data, rather than giving away them to commercial #monopolists for free, just to buy them back from the very same monopolist.“

Justin Stanley from Lexington, #Kentucky, USA:
„Institutions should have full control over their #socialmedia rather than leaving it to the whims of #billionaires.“

Take #vacant storefronts away from #greedy #landlords and #house people.

#People before #Profits & human safety over empty houses to prop up #capitalists and #land #monopolists.

This isn't even #UrbanPlanning it is #urban #CommonSense

https://rall.com/2023/12/06/hot-take-8-take-away-empty-storefronts-from-greedy-warehousing-landlords

@dangillmor
Do you think that we are reaching a point where people need to stand up against #bigTech and reject them as #monopolists and digital feudalists?

@pluralistic Cory's latest on Amazon is a must read: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

I've been locked into Amazon Prime for a while: I have movies on Prime Video, and a fuckton of Kindle books.

There Are Ways to turn these DRMed assets into more portable, perpetually accessible assets, and once that is accomplished, I think I'll break my lockin. They've been raising prices and been definitely shittier in letting me find what I want. #Amazon #Monopolies #Monopolists #FightTheOligarchy

@lykso
A long time ago on fedi, we wrote that we felt many people were identifying as #anarchist maybe to differentiate themselves from the #monopolists / corporateState totalitarians.

We felt that they simply wanted to be treated as sovereign citizens, not as cogs in the #corporatised and #commodified experiment some call #neoliberalism.

@lightweight

@desafinado You will, however, find the word "#monopolists" and I've certainly written a *lot* about #antitrust:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/antitrust/

@icedquinn
Monopoly is all fine and dandy until #monopolists decide its not. They break systems when it suits them and they are prepared.

The rise in massSurveillance and authoritarianism over past decades has not helped us.

It gets worse when we are not allowed to suggest alternatives to monopoly without being #unpersoned.

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#oligarchy @ademan @lain

When describing the ongoing #MITMAttack on #theInternet by the likes of #Amazon, #Cloudflare, #Microsoft, and #Akamai which 'backronym' (back acronym) might you prefer?

• Mafia in the Middle
• Megacorporation in the Middle
• Monopolist in the Middle
• Monopoly in the Middle
• (something else…?)

Please justify any given answer.

#takingTheInternetPrivate #reverseProxy #internetCancer #MITM #mafia #extortion #megaCorporations #dotCons #monopoly #monopolists #useI2P #useTor

When describing the ongoing #MITMAttack on #theInternet by the likes of #Amazon, #Cloudflare, #Microsoft, and #Akamai which 'backronym' (back acronym) might you prefer?

• Mafia in the Middle
• Megacorporation in the Middle
• Monopolist in the Middle
• Monopoly in the Middle
• (something else…?)

Please justify any given answer.

#takingTheInternetPrivate #reverseProxy #internetCancer #MITM #mafia #extortion #megaCorporations #dotCons #monopoly #monopolists #useI2P #useTor

@Mojeek
To be fair, there is also a lot of overlap between them. They seem to operate as a #cartel, analogous to the railroad and oil barons that helped create #fascism in the last century. Alongside the #centralBankers.

The interesting thing is what we hear of #China doing. They are reportedly working overtime right now to suppress their #BigTech #monopolists.

Its a shame #theWest lack the same foresight.

@Mojeek
To be fair there is also a lot of overlap between them. They seem to operate as a #cartel, analogous to the railroad and oil barons that helped create fascism in the last century.

The interesting thing is what we here of #China doing, they are working overtime right, now to contain their #BigTech #monopolists.

Its a same #theWest lack the same foresight.

PSA: Anyone who is interested in maintaining a bit of #privacy, saving wealth for a rainy day, who opposes #growthIdeology, opposes BigTech #monopolists, or the destruction of #smallBusiness,

… will henceforth be declared anarchists.

#labels #BigTech #warOnSavers #warOnConservationists #anarchism