monopoly
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On Tech: When Amazon flexes its power
To Amazon and its defenders, this feels unfair. Amazon is just doing what stores have always done — just better. This question about whether technology superpowers can play fair by the tried and true rules is a central legal, economic… Continue reading
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The internet is a utility
…[C]orporations that control internet access insist that they’re providing specialized services that are somehow different than water, power, and telephones. They point to crazy bullshit you don’t want or need like free email addresses and web hosting solutions and goofy… Continue reading
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Why U.S. Internet Access is Slow, Costly and Unfair | Moyers and Company
Susan Crawford, former special assistant to President Obama for science, technology and innovation, and author of Captive Audience: The Telecom Industry and Monopoly Power in the New Gilded Age, joins Bill to discuss how our government has allowed a few… Continue reading
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The Croney Capitalism Blowout
Originally posted on Dead Wild Roses: Why do things happen the way they do? Why do certain segments of society do well when everyone else is being hammered? Some would say through being “smart” and “working hard”, but that… Continue reading
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Henry A. Wallace, The Danger of American Fascism
A 1944 piece very much worth consideration by then Vice President Wallace. The obvious types of American fascists are dealt with on the air and in the press. These demagogues and stooges are fronts for others. Dangerous as these people… Continue reading
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Controlling Choice
The constantly modulating networks of choice that leave us always wanting by catching us already adapting within the limits we are offered. https://karljaspers23.wordpress.com/2010/06/21/society-of-control/ Continue reading
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