By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026Under the terms of the settlement, Agri Stats must "allow" restaurants, farmers, and other parts of the supply chain to pay it for the data it consolidates. 23/ 160
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026This will allow more parties to collude to rig prices, and provide more income to Agri Stats. As David Dayen writes in *The American Prospect*, they've been "sentenced to make money." 24/ 180
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/05/2026Agri Stats isn't the only "consultancy" that launders a price-fixing cartel that's driving up the cost of living for all Americans, including Trump's base, in order to make oligarchs better off. Companies like Realpage do the same thing for residential rents: pluralistic.net/2024/12/11/n... 25/pluralistic.netPluralistic: The housing emergency and the second Trump term (11 Dec 2024) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 170
