By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026If 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/2026/09/05/d...pluralistic.net 1134
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026The USA got its first antimonopoly law, the Sherman Act, in 1890, but it took *22 years* before that law could be used to crush John D Rockefeller's corrupt, sprawling empire. 1238
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 05/09/2026Senator John Sherman promoted his law as a way of *preventing* monopolies from emerging, warning the Senate that they would struggle to overthrow the "autocrats of trade" that monopolies created: pluralistic.net/2022/02/20/w...pluralistic.net 1152
