The Tech Industry’s Playbook To Prevent Regulation

#politics #GAFAM #oligopoly #health

https://www.afterbabel.com/p/tech-industry-playbook

The Tech Industry’s Playbook To Prevent Regulation

The Tech Industry is using an old trick – shifting the responsibility entirely to us

Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked! | James Parker | Medium

#telecoms #oligopoly

This is really crazy shit. And it's coming to your country real soon now...

https://medium.com/@jamesdwho/australias-3g-shutdown-why-your-4g-5g-phone-is-now-blocked-5900cd5361e2

Australia’s 3G Shutdown - Why your 4G/5G Phone is now Blocked!

Corporate Self Interest & the Failures of Government & Regulators

Boeing chief must have engineering background, Emirates boss says

#politics #oligopoly #Boeing

https://www.ft.com/content/fcacc767-5f05-414e-bebc-61c737764e7b

#Fediverse, the #oligopoly, both in regards of software used to run the instances and the equipment hosting the users. Thanks for helping to create system prone to have a big impact in case of failure!

There is about 10 times more #Mastodon instances, than the second system used, which is #Pleroma. #Fediverse

How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon

The company’s crackdown on a worker protest in New York backfired and led to a historic labor victory.

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/04/02/business/amazon-union-christian-smalls.html

#amazon #monopoly #oligopoly #union #labor-union #labour-union #labor-organizing #oligarchs #workers #billionaires #business #organized-labor

How Two Best Friends Beat Amazon

The company’s crackdown on a worker protest in New York backfired and led to a historic labor victory.

"It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is. It's run by an #oligopoly of wildly profitable companies that coerce academics into working for free for them" https://mamot.fr/@pluralistic/107179959514393968

Cory Doctorow's linkblog (@pluralistic@mamot.fr)

Attached: 1 image It's hard to overstate what a scam academic and scientific publishing is. It's run by an oligopoly of wildly profitable companies that coerce academics into working for free for them, and then sell the product of their labors...

Well, mistaking the actual music industry (people who sing, play etc.) and the recording #cartel or #oligopoly exploiting those who actually do #music https://www.cracked.com/article_31118_the-music-industry-doesnt-understand-music-it-never-did.html

The Music Industry Doesn't Understand Music; It Never Did

As long as humans have been judging art, they've been screwing it up. And no medium is quite so noteworthy for its lack of self-awareness as the music world.