Pluralistic: Is antitrust anti-labor? (14 Apr 2023)

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Is antitrust anti-labor?: tl;dr: no.
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Pluralistic: Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup (13 Feb 2023)

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Obama's turncoat antitrust enforcer is angry about the Google breakup: You know you're doing something right when…
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Pluralistic: How monopoly enshittified Amazon/28 Nov 2022

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How monopoly enshittified Amazon: Chokepoint Capitalism ruins everything.
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Pluralistic: 27 Sep 2022 Federalist Society v Corporate Personhood

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Federalist Society v Corporate Personhood: Corporations don't have First Amendment rights except when they're making political donations, refusing to bake cakes, or blocking birth control.
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Pluralistic: 10 Sep 2022 American healthcare did a fuckery, the White House has a plan for Big Tech big-data

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American healthcare did a fuckery: A trillion prices can't be wrong.
The White House has a plan for Big Tech: Donald Trump, Mark Zuckerberg and Joe Biden all agree.
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Pluralistic: 18 May 2022

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A(nother) way in which Facebook is the 21st Century's tobacco industry: Millions for front groups who insist that only Mark Zuckerberg can save us from Xi Jinping.
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Pluralistic: 07 Apr 2022

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The antitrust case against gig companies: Either they're violating employment law, or they're violating antitrust.
Cops prove how stupid the SMART Act is: Blasting Disney tunes as a way to foil accountability.
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Pluralistic: 04 Feb 2022

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A covid vaccine for your airways: The promising science of nasal spray vaccines.
Rail monopolies destroyed the American supply chain: Heads they win, tails we lose.
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Pluralistic: 24 Sep 2021

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Demonopolizing the internet with interoperability: My op-ed in the Communications of the ACM
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Pluralistic: 23 Sep 2021

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The Halloween Moon: A YA novel from Nightvale creator Joseph Fink.
The music monopolists: Thinking outside the antitrust box.
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