By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026Say you lived through the murder of an addicted loved one at the hands of the billionaire Sacklers, who were abetted by their putative regulators and got to keep billions of dollars even after they declared "bankruptcy." 1420
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026It's easy to understand how you might conclude that you can't trust pharmaceutical companies' or their regulators when they swear vaccines are safe and effective: pluralistic.net/2021/08/18/l...pluralistic.netPluralistic: 18 Aug 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow 1381
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 09/09/2026In the same way, once you've forgotten that we *decided* to let monopolists run amok, despite regulatory capture that would obviously follow as a consequence, you might well conclude that governments are part of the problem, and therefore can't be the solution. 2454
