Cory Doctorow on Nostr: There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not *pro*-monopoly ...
There's a strain of anti-anti-monopolist that insists that they're not *pro*-monopoly - they're just *realists* who understand that global gigacorporations are too big to fail, too big to jail, and that governments can't hope to rein them in. Trying to regulate a tech giant, they say, is like trying to regulate the weather.
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