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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026

During the Biden years, the UK Competition and Markets Authority ran global tech antitrust summits in London where US enforcers and their UK, EU, Singaporean, South Korean and Japanese counterparts met to plan a shared strategy to take down US Big Tech: www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/cma-data-t... 17/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026

The presence of America's trustbusters at these meetings was key. Not only were they running wildly successful cases against US Big Tech in America, but just by being there, they signaled that the US government would help foreign governments enforce their judgments against US tech giants. 18/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 07/07/2026

That's key, because - as Marshall Plan architects knew - monopolies often become a de facto, private, unaccountable arm of the state in the countries where they are born, and can call upon the governments they've colonized to protect them from other countries' attempts to enforce their laws. 19/

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