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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026

This was grounded in the idea that we could not afford to let any company - not a "good" company, nor a "bad" company - get so large that it could no longer be regulated, lest its executives become "autocrats of trade": pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/w... 37/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026

The same people who laid siege to antitrust law would later come after *all* forms of checks and balances. 38/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 11/06/2026

These are the people who gave us the "unitary executive" and Project 2025, and the collapse of accountability that has allowed the worst people to commit the gravest sins they could imagine and still reap vast fortunes. These beam-breakers wanted kings, and they got them. 39/

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