By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026For a minute there, it looked like Big Tech was on the ropes. Over the past decade, countries all over the world have gotten antitrust fever, from South Korea to Singapore, Europe to Australia, and even China: pluralistic.net/2025/06/28/m... 1/ 410740
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026If you'd like an essay-formatted version of this thread to read or share, here's a link to it on pluralistic.net, my surveillance-free, ad-free, tracker-free blog: pluralistic.net/2026/07/07/g... 2/pluralistic.netPluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow – No trackers, no ads. Black type, white background. Privacy policy: we don't collect or retain any data at all ever period. 1272
Elderberries @elderries.bsky.social · 08/07/2026Pretty clear in Australia's media case. Australian based media were seeing their bottomline eaten by facebook, google, etc, threatening those companies and meaning less tax for Australia. This included Murdoch owned media who did a big anti-tech push. But tech stopped paying small media companies. 000
Coffee Roasts @realcoffeechoco.bsky.social · 07/07/2026The fundamental problem with antitrust law is that it is based on a house of sand. The real reason for it is to prevent a corporation from becoming too powerful in its own right to challenge the federal government. We wave our hands around economic models, but the reality is.... 110
