Pluralistic: A winning trade war strategy for Canada (11 Jan 2026)

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A winning trade war strategy for Canada: Tech giants are also the enemy of American businesses.
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Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition): A thing that governments can do with 100% reliability.
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The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress.
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The long game: Breaking up Big Tech is a long-run project.
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Apple threatens to stop selling iPhones in the EU: Yeah, right.
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The worst possible antitrust outcome: Hope you like enshittification.
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Bragging about replacing coders with AI is a sales-pitch: The reality is more complex.
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Apple faces criminal sanctions for defying App Store antitrust order: They lied to the judge, then covered it up, and now she's PISSED.
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