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By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C)
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When that happens, it's easy to conclude that government is *incapable* of regulating, and to insist that we might as well do away with the state altogether. This is a self-reinforcing belief, because the weaker the state is, the more monopolists can steal from you:
https://pluralistic.net/2022/06/05/regulatory-capture/
2026-09-09T10:58:08.878Z