Pluralistic: Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts (10 Nov 2023)

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Big Telco's fury over FCC plan to infuse telecoms policy with facts: Dickey Amendments for everything.
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Uncle Sam paid to develop a cancer drug and now one guy will get to charge whatever he wants for it: Making billionaires, one patent at a time.
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In defense of Deliverism: The radical idea that people vote for politicians who make their lives better.
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After Ohio rail disaster, Buttigieg is silent on restoring the safety standards Trump repealed: Civil War-era brake systems were good enough for General Sherman…
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Maintaining monopolies with the cloud: Microsoft, Oracle and other cloud giants use their terms of service to prevent competition.
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Guide to a ripoff-free funeral: Terminal-stage capitalism.
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Inflation is caused by too little capacity: Not too much money.
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Surprise billing's death-spiral may suck in untold patients: The best time to kill Envision Healthcare was before it started (the second best time is now).
Podcasting "Vertically Challenged": We need to investigate the companies Big Tech DOESN'T buy.
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Grappling with Big Wrestling: Vince McMahon has a monopoly on violence.
Podcasting about the copyleft trolls who tried to shake me down: Pixsy and the depravity of speculative invoicing.
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DoS a federal agency, then charge for access: Enq carries on a tradition of genuinely terrible startup ideas.
"Inclusive Access" allows textbook monopolists to permanently consolidate their gains: Universities are auto-billing students for high-priced, self-destructing textbooks they can't loan or sell.
Scottish Limited Partnerships are still laundering criminal millions: Offshore is actually onshore.
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