By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/05/2026That's not true: antitrust is the most consequentially political regulation (with the possible exception of regulations on elections). Every fascist power defeated in WWII relied on the backing of their national monopolists to take, hold and wield power. 8/ 27115
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/05/2026That's why the Marshall Plan technocrats who rewrote the laws of Europe, South Korea and Japan made sure to copy over US antitrust law onto those statute-books. 9/ 1584
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/05/2026(That's also why the tech antitrust cases brought in Europe could be re-run in South Korea and Japan - their laws are all substantively similar, because they were harmonized with US antitrust in the 1950s): pluralistic.net/2025/01/22/a... 10/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Keir Starmer appoints Jeff Bezos as his “first buddy” (22 Jan 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1451