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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

Our whole digital world has been wrapped in chains by rent-extracting monopolists who gloried in their power to use hook IP to deprive you of the right to use your property in ways you see fit, writing private laws that made it a crime to displease them. 87/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

A generation of allowing companies to shift value from their customers and suppliers to themselves has made them richer, us poorer, and everything more expensive. They've accumulated vast wealth at our expense. Their margins are our opportunity. 88/

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 26/08/2026

The VCR was a great idea 55 years ago. 55 years later, it's an idea whose time has come - again. eof/

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Sarah Richards @sarahrichards.bsky.social · 26/08/2026

And today. Competition now unambiguously described as dangerous for all those precious customers Meta has so long sought to “empower” and “protect”... Moral vacuity at its risible, rotten worst: the shrivelling of all intellectual argument into an endless stream of shrunken, doltish heads.

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