Hate #monopoly? And #monopolists? Wish the Ludlow Strike had turned out different?

Me, too.

https://www.breakupgamingsociety.com/blog/small-creators-something-something-give-me-money

@pluralistic Cory's latest on Amazon is a must read: https://pluralistic.net/2023/06/14/flywheel-shyster-and-flywheel/#unfulfilled-by-amazon

I've been locked into Amazon Prime for a while: I have movies on Prime Video, and a fuckton of Kindle books.

There Are Ways to turn these DRMed assets into more portable, perpetually accessible assets, and once that is accomplished, I think I'll break my lockin. They've been raising prices and been definitely shittier in letting me find what I want. #Amazon #Monopolies #Monopolists #FightTheOligarchy

#10yrsago #Austerity: the greatest bait-and-switch in history https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JQuHSQXxsjM

#10yrsago Who’s claiming copyright on the #Prism logo? https://www.gawker.com/a-british-television-host-took-the-photo-used-in-the-ns-512093707

#5yrsago Facebook only pretended to shut down access to friends’ data in 2015, quietly continued access for its favored partners https://www.usatoday.com/story/tech/2018/06/08/facebook-gave-some-companies-special-access-data-users-friends-report/686651002/

#1yrago #Monopolists want to create human inkjet printers: The war on your pancreas continues https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/10/loopers/#hp-ification

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@lykso
A long time ago on fedi, we wrote that we felt many people were identifying as #anarchist maybe to differentiate themselves from the #monopolists / corporateState totalitarians.

We felt that they simply wanted to be treated as sovereign citizens, not as cogs in the #corporatised and #commodified experiment some call #neoliberalism.

@lightweight

#Republicans - always happy to serve as #UsefulIdiots for #monopolists - stickered gas-pumps up and down the country with Joe Biden #IDidThat stickers, even as gas companies declared *record* profits and boasted to investors about how they were able to drill directly into drivers' wallets under cover of inflation.

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@desafinado You will, however, find the word "#monopolists" and I've certainly written a *lot* about #antitrust:

https://pluralistic.net/tag/antitrust/

@RevealingLight #capitalists are the sorriest lot of anti-capitalists I ever seen. Couldn’t uphold it if they even tried (and they don’t)

Free exchange is too important to leave it in the hands of #monopolists and #totalitarian tyrants.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EPoUCddCnuo

In practice, "free filing" turned out to be a marketing funnel that tricked people into paying for services they were entitled to get for free. Intuit alone stole billions this way:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/24/uber-for-arbitration/#nibbled-to-death-by-ducks

The #monopolists who run America's tax-prep services claim that "government can't do anything well" and insist that the private sector will bring "efficiencies" to tax-prep.

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@icedquinn
Monopoly is all fine and dandy until #monopolists decide its not. They break systems when it suits them and they are prepared.

The rise in massSurveillance and authoritarianism over past decades has not helped us.

It gets worse when we are not allowed to suggest alternatives to monopoly without being #unpersoned.

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#oligarchy @ademan @lain

It was a name that once meant quality; today, #Myer is served by #Amazon.

This means all your browsing, purchasing, financial details, and other inclinations could be getting sucked up and monetised by one of the most egregious #monopolists on the planet, #JeffBezos.

#MITM #monolithInTheMiddleAttack #consumption #blackFridayDeathWorship #australia

When describing the ongoing #MITMAttack on #theInternet by the likes of #Amazon, #Cloudflare, #Microsoft, and #Akamai which 'backronym' (back acronym) might you prefer?

• Mafia in the Middle
• Megacorporation in the Middle
• Monopolist in the Middle
• Monopoly in the Middle
• (something else…?)

Please justify any given answer.

#takingTheInternetPrivate #reverseProxy #internetCancer #MITM #mafia #extortion #megaCorporations #dotCons #monopoly #monopolists #useI2P #useTor

@Mojeek
To be fair, there is also a lot of overlap between them. They seem to operate as a #cartel, analogous to the railroad and oil barons that helped create #fascism in the last century. Alongside the #centralBankers.

The interesting thing is what we hear of #China doing. They are reportedly working overtime right now to suppress their #BigTech #monopolists.

Its a shame #theWest lack the same foresight.

@Mojeek
To be fair there is also a lot of overlap between them. They seem to operate as a #cartel, analogous to the railroad and oil barons that helped create fascism in the last century.

The interesting thing is what we here of #China doing, they are working overtime right, now to contain their #BigTech #monopolists.

Its a same #theWest lack the same foresight.

PSA: Anyone who is interested in maintaining a bit of #privacy, saving wealth for a rainy day, who opposes #growthIdeology, opposes BigTech #monopolists, or the destruction of #smallBusiness,

… will henceforth be declared anarchists.

#labels #BigTech #warOnSavers #warOnConservationists #anarchism

@schestowitz
Sadly the #nuclearLobby are extremely powerful.

The industry, wherever it exists, is #tooBigToFail and aids the #warPigs in the #militaryMediaComplex.

We need to harness #renewables, but the smaller scale nature of #renewableEnergy doesn't suit #monopolists.

Mining and refining #uranium is not a sustainable process.

#nuclear #war #nuclearwaste #nuclearEnergy

monopoly mofos...

#monopoly #staches #tophat #monopolists #cancercapitalism #ceo #monocle #animatedgif

monopoly mofos...

#monopoly #staches #tophat #monopolists #cancercapitalism #ceo #monocle #animatedgif