*Internet Con* is a "#BigTech disassembly manual." It explains how Big Tech got so big (lax anti-#monopoly enforcement, which led to #RegulatoryCapture, which let Big Tech abuse our privacy, #labor rights, and #consumer rights), and how we can use #interoperability so it's no longer #TooBigToFail, nor #TooBigToJail:

https://www.versobooks.com/products/3035-the-internet-con

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Eine neue Form des zivilen Widerstands ist in Wien angekommen: offen angekündigte aber nicht angemeldete Protestmärsche, bei denen jede/r mitgehen kann. Wenn genug teilnehmen ist der Rechtsstaat am Limit: #TooBigToJail. Werde dort sein. https://t.co/UTsVCxn3Fb
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URL: https://twitter.com/ReiSteurer/status/1658559912274808832

#ZivilerUngehorsam
#Klimakrise

RT @ReiSteurer
Offenbar stimmt es, dass ein Unternehmen die Strafen der Klimaaktivist*innen übernehmen wird. Das könnte ein Dammbruch für massenhaften zivilen Ungehorsam sein. Für Ökoworld würde das wiederum bedeuten, dass sie nicht allzu viele Strafen zahlen müssen weil #TooBigToJail https://twitter.com/retep_kire/status/1652601336582602752

RT @ReiSteurer
Offenbar stimmt es, dass ein Unternehmen die Strafen der Klimaaktivist*innen übernehmen wird. Das könnte ein Dammbruch für massenhaften zivilen Ungehorsam sein. Für Ökoworld würde das wiederum bedeuten, dass sie nicht allzu viele Strafen zahlen müssen weil #TooBigToJail https://twitter.com/retep_kire/status/1652601336582602752

It's run by Party Secretary Bezos and his Commissars, who decide which goods are can be profitably made and sold.

Companies are disciplined by two forces: competition and regulation. But a company that doesn't face competition swiftly becomes ungovernable, because its centrality makes it #TooBigToFail, while its monopoly profits make it #TooBigToJail.

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Economism says that we can allow monopolies to form and harness them to do only good, enforcing against them when they abuse their market dominance to hike prices. But once a monopoly forms, it's *too late* to enforce against them, because monopolies are both #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail:

https://doctorow.medium.com/small-government-fd5870a9462e

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Edward Ongweso, on the venture capitalists who squealed for a #BailOut this month:

> You would be hard-pressed to find another parasite that has so thoroughly wrecked the body and environment of its host, all while trying to convince the host that it is deserving of praise and further accommodation.

_The Incredible Tantrum Venture Capitalists Threw Over Silicon Valley Bank_
https://slate.com/technology/2023/03/silicon-valley-bank-rescue-venture-capital-calacanis-sacks-ackman-tantrum.html

#TooBigToJail #LateStageCapitalism #TheMoneyIsInTheWrongPlaces

There are plenty of good reasons for the STB to have blocked this merger. The rail industry is already excessively concentrated, and its top execs are so convinced that they're both #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail that they're rendering entire towns permanently uninhabitable in order to eke out a few more points in profit:

https://pluralistic.net/2023/02/11/dinah-wont-you-blow/#ecp

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literally nobody is browsing the hashtag "#TooBigToJail"

@kbensimon the trials and tribs the mostly born rich & corrupt US #UpperClass go through.

They have so much unearned wealth & power to lose, so they stress out to a different degree than people working check to check, struggling to feed families and make ends meet.

Poor #GeorgeWBush #HankPaulson #GoldmanSachs #BankOfAmerica before #Congress #TARP bailed out the #TooBigToJail Banksters who pump n dumped the global economy in 2008

#CommercialRealEstate #CorporateWelfare #AI will sink them

RT @doctorow
It's just another reminder that the US doesn't have "corporate criminals" because the US doesn't have any meaningful enforcement for corporate crimes. In America, we love our companies like we love our billionaires: #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card 36/

It's just another reminder that the US doesn't have "corporate criminals" because the US doesn't have any meaningful enforcement for corporate crimes. In America, we love our companies like we love our billionaires: #TooBigToFail and #TooBigToJail:

https://pluralistic.net/2021/10/12/no-criminals-no-crimes/#get-out-of-jail-free-card

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