By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026The opportunities for international cooperation don't stop there! It's been more than a century since the Gilded Age, and the intervening years saw the US enact the Marshall Plan, through which it redesigned the legal systems of countries shattered by WWII and the Korean War. 13/ 1200
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026The technocrats who oversaw the Marshall Plan understood that monopolies played a key role in the rise of fascism in Europe and Japan, so they transposed America's landmark antitrust laws - like the Sherman and Clayton Acts - onto lawbooks around the world: pluralistic.net/2021/01/08/c... 14/pluralistic.netPluralistic: 08 Jan 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1326
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026That means that it's not just that the same companies are committing the same crimes everywhere around the world - it also means that most of these countries have substantively similar statutes establishing those crimes. 15/ 1231