Today's links
- Demonopolizing the internet with interoperability: My op-ed in the Communications of the ACM
- This day in history: 2001, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Tag: monopoly
Pluralistic: 07 Jul 2021
Today's links
- Technological self-determination: Competition is a means, not an end.
- Biden delivers Right to Repair via executive order: End of the line for John Deere's asshole lobbyists.
- Comic book store files comic-book lawsuit: Third Planet Comics has already won its case…in my heart.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
A Monopoly Isn’t the Same as Legitimate Greatness
Competent monopolists aren’t good monopolists
If you do much reading about antitrust, you’re sure to come across Ida Tarbell, the campaigning investigative journalist whose masterful 1904 book, The History of the Standard Oil Company (free ebook, free audiobook), brought down John D. Rockefeller and his monopolistic Standard Oil Company, which was broken up in 1911. It split into seven companies, many of which are still with us—or were, until recent mergers (think: Exxon, Mobil, Esso, Chevron, Texaco, and Amoco).
Continue reading "A Monopoly Isn’t the Same as Legitimate Greatness"
Pluralistic: 11 Jun 2021
Today's links
- Privacy Without Monopoly, EU edition: The GDPR forbids competition in human rights abuses.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 30 Apr 2021
Today's links
- Experian doxes the world (again): And the breach is still ongoing.
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 25 Mar 2021
Today's links
- Zuckerpunch: Don't trust Mark Zuckerberg to solve the Facebook problem.
- Good news about news co-ops: Save journalism, not media monopolies.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 18 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Planet Money on HP's myriad ripoffs: Ink-stained wretches of the world, unite!
- Strength in numbers: The crisis in accounting.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 11 Feb 2021
Today's links
- Dependency Confusion: A completely wild supply-chain hack.
- Adam Curtis on criti-hype: Big Tech as an epiphenomenon of sociopathic mediocrity, not supergenius.
- Catalytic converter theft: Rhodium at $21,900/oz.
- Apple puts North Dakota on blast: Stop thinking different!
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 23 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Stop saying "it's not censorship if it's not the government": I didn't expect the Spanish Inquisition.
- Trump's swamp gators find corporate refuge: The Swamped project.
- This day in history: 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading
Pluralistic: 17 Jan 2021
Today's links
- Fighting fiber was the right's dumbest self-own: "We don't have to care. We're the [phone company|social media monopolist]."
- This day in history: 2001, 2006, 2011, 2016, 2020
- Colophon: Recent publications, upcoming/recent appearances, current writing projects, current reading