AI companies will fail. We can salvage something from the wreckage — Guardian US AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots

#AI
#Monopolists
#CoryDoctorow
#SciFi

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What Does Lina Khan’s Trust-Busting Mean for New York City? Under-scrutinized monopolies—like the fire truck oligopoly—hinder municipal functions.

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Onward and upward - #Mamdani #LinaKhan

Down with the #billionaires #plutocrats #oligarchs #monopolists

I switched to Bell Internet two months ago. Today, I got a notification that my monthly fee is going up by $4. WTF???

#monopolists

Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’

Amazon Web Services outage shows internet users ‘at mercy’ of too few providers, experts say

Crash that hit apps and websites around world demonstrates ‘urgent need for diversification in cloud computing’

#Monopolists #AWS #Bezos #Amazon #Competition

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Not just a " #Wikipedia problem"... it’s the entire #internet... which used to be a unifying place... which made it harder to divide people for controlling them ("divide and conquer")... that's why #warmongers and #monopolists worked hard to #censor and #manipulate this great project for #freedom...

Monopoly Round-Up: Price Gouging vs Price Fixing vs Price Controls Kamala Harris proposed a slew of proposals arguing that pricing in America has gone haywire. Economists got mad. Trump called her a Communist. What does it all mean?

The big news here is that Harris blamed big business #monopolists for #inflation, and proposed #antitrust policies - #pricefixing and #pricegouging rules - to bring it down. The media coverage of Harris’s plans was kind of insane, with economists upset..
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You love to see it: Apple is the latest #Monopolists facing EU #antitrust fine over abusing their market share.

You don't have to be a #Spotify fan, but this is a victory for consumers in European countries. When will American regulators show some muscles toward Big Techs?