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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

Every year, Google sends Apple a bribe of more than $20b in exchange for Apple not entering the search market: appleworld.today/2025/09/goog...

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Google won’t be barred from entering into search agreements with companies like Apple

Google won’t be barred from entering into search agreements with companies like Apple.

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

And the biggest tech companies in the world had a secret "no poach" agreement where they illegally promised not to try to hire one another's top engineers by offering them raises: chicagounbound.uchicago.edu/law_and_econ...

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The Silicon Valley No-Poach Conspiracy

The Silicon Valley no-poach conspiracy is the most important cartel no one has heard of. It is rarely discussed in the cartel literature and is lost to public memory. More than forty tech firms, inclu...

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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 16/09/2026

The only thing Peter Thiel hates more than the Antichrist (spoiler, he's just talking about Greta Thunberg) is "wasteful competition": www.youtube.com/shorts/WmRC_...

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Peter Thiel: Competition is a waste of time. Do not compete.

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