Last month, an internal diplomatic cable signed by U.S. Secretary of State Marco Rubio, reportedly circulated to American diplomats worldwide, ordered them to resist attempts to regulate U.S. tech companies’ handling of foreigners’ data.
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If France can phase out Teams and Zoom by this time next year, Canada can at least stop pretending that renting our state’s critical communications stack is the same thing as governing it. We need to decide what we are ready to say au revoir to. #VassBednar
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2 “ #Paradigms are the sources of #systems. From them, from shared #social agreements about the nature of reality, come system goals and #information flows, feedbacks, stocks, flows and everything else about systems.” - #DonellaMeadows, as quoted by #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar … 🧵
“Liberalizing #markets was a philosophical and practical abdication of responsibility for the fundamental moral, ethical and political questions about how we should organize the #economy.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians
“ #Canada was the 1st country in the world to institute a federal, industrial-era #competitionlaw in 1889, one year before the #UnitedStates enacted its national #antimonopoly #law, the Sherman Act, in 1890.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How #Companies Capture #Markets & Harm Canadians
“Markets are made, not born. They are #public creations and have guardrails which should be democratically determined. Who makes them, and the rules that govern them are up to us.” - #DeniseHearn & #VassBednar, The Big Fix: How Companies Capture #Markets and Harm #Canadians
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