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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026

They defend anticircumvention laws that make it a literal felony for you to install someone else's app store on your phone or put someone else's ink in your printer: memex.craphound.com/2012/01/10/l... 47/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026

They somehow believe value arises when the best among us are forced to contend with the stark terror of losing everything to a competitor, but *also* that there is a group of people who are *so* perfect, so virtuous and brilliant that they do not need this kind of goad to prod them into action. 48/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/07/2026

Indeed, these genetic sports and generational talents are *so* amazing that to force them to sully themselves with grubby competition is to deny us all the fruits of their genius. Who are these people? Why, they're billionaires of course. 49/

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