late stage capitalism AT&T stands to make $800,000,000 more by sneakily tripling a bullshit "administrative fee" Cory Doctorow

Business With the App Store monopoly case, the Supreme Court could reverse decades of frustrated antitrust enforcement Cory Doctorow

Business Justice Dept. won't block AT&T purchase of Time Warner, mega-merger can proceed Xeni Jardin

transparency Laramie County, Wyoming Sheriffs' department blocks public records requests for their prison phone monopoly deal Cory Doctorow

Business Big Tech has established a "kill zone" of business ideas that startups can't get funded to try Cory Doctorow

AI War criminal Henry Kissinger: "AI is the end of the Enlightenment" Cory Doctorow

corporatism The £7 billion Carillion collapse has the UK government talking about breaking up the Big Four accounting firms Cory Doctorow

Business Comcast charges you $90 to "install" cable in houses that are already wired by Comcast Cory Doctorow

Business Ticketmaster finds a new way to be terrible: facial recognition! Cory Doctorow

corporatism The most hated company in America is about to get much, much bigger Cory Doctorow

web theory Amazon orders Signal to stop using AWS to defeat censorship Cory Doctorow

telcoms Comcast: if you don't subscribe to cable TV, we won't sell you high-speed internet Cory Doctorow

facebook Thinking through the "What should we do about Facebook?" question Cory Doctorow

Gadgets A who's-who of tech manufacturers sent scaremongering letters to the Illinois legislature to kill Right to Repair Cory Doctorow

facebook The problem isn't that Facebook is creepy, it's that it's creepy AND HUGE Cory Doctorow

web theory The upside of big tech is Russia vs Telegram, but the downside is Cloudflare vs SESTA Cory Doctorow

late stage capitalism The US workforce is the most productive, best educated in history and unemployment is at an all-time low, but wages are stagnant Cory Doctorow

facebook The Peltzman model: a way to understand the kind of regulation Facebook might face from Congress Cory Doctorow

happy mutants Reverse-engineering Whatsapp, to let us talk to our friends without Facebook's oversight Cory Doctorow

Business Here are the moats and walls Facebook has been building for years to defend against #DeleteFacebook Cory Doctorow