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Latest blogosphere posts tagged “monopolies”

 

• Human Rights and Anarchism

  
  P.A.P. Blog - Human Rights Etc. — Authority: 113
  ( source ) At first sight, anarchism is an attractive theory for proponents of human rights. It’s often the state that violates human rights and getting rid of the state would therefore automatically and drastically reduce the number of rights violations. However, state action isn’t the only cause of rights ...
  5 days ago

• The Pirate Bay Introduces Physibles: Napster For Physical Obje...

  
  Computer & Internet - computer-internet.marc8.com — Authority: 140
  A little over a year ago, we wrote about a fascinating paper from Public Knowledge with the splendid title, "It Will Be Awesome if They Don’t Screw it Up: 3D Printing, Intellectual Property, and the Fight Over the Next Great Disruptive Technology." It was written by Michael Weinberg, who recently recorded ...
  1 week ago

• SOPA, PIPA and other BS

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 113
  Congress has been making laws for years that did little to promote innovation and quite a lot to protect monopolists from competition. The debate over "appropriate" protection for intellectual property is vast; my opinion is that its swung too far in favor of Mickey Mouse and patent banks and too far away from ...
  2 weeks ago

• Louisiana governor Bobby Jindal unveils education reform plan

  
  Wintery Knight — Authority: 552
  Here are the details on Bobby Jindal’s new education plan , from New Orleans Online Access. Excerpt:  Gov. Bobby Jindal on Tuesday outlined a far-reaching set of proposals aimed at improving education in Louisiana, including a state-wide voucher program for low-income students, an expansion of autonomous ...
  2 weeks ago

• Can You Arrest A Corporation?

  
  The Understory : Understory.RAN.org — Authority: 607
  Click for larger image There are some who say that corporations are people. So can you arrest one? Well, we’re going to find out. Right now, corporations technically have the same First Amendment rights as real live people (as ruled by the Supreme Court’s decision in Citizens United v. FEC a year ago). So ...
  2 weeks ago

• Good performance or poor oversight?

  
  Aguanomics — Authority: 113
  Jack Moss of Aquafed (the International Federation of Private Water Operators) showed this slide during a presentation in which he discussed the "unlevel playing field" that private operators (investor owned utilities and contract operators) face. His point is that the lights of contracts (open-tendered with ...
  2 weeks ago

• Crony capitalism in practice? Green taxes, Smart meters etc.

  
  When IT Meets Politics with Philip Virgo — Authority: 100
  I never did understand why we were going to have to pay somuch extra to energy companies to get smart meters. Justbefore Christmas I chaired a meeting which indicated that spending billions on separatecommunications networks was unnecessary: the data volumes were piddling and couldbe handled at much lower cost by ...
  2 weeks ago

• How Platform Monopolies Fail

  
  tdaxp — Authority: 109
  Technology platform tend towards monopoly. Whether physical or virtual, platforms provide a level playing field for other actors to use to their advantage. The predictability of monopolies allows other actors to plan for the future, and the technological stabilization they present make the road ahead a lot less ...
  2 weeks ago

• Cocooned in Lancashire Cotton Wool

  
  Contra Celsum — Authority: 115
  Troglodyte Reactionary Reflex Syndrome Mike Lee--Auckland Councillor, former Chair of the now defunct Regional Council, and left-wing true believer--has weighed in on the Ports of Auckland stoush.  His argument draws upon a spurious ideology and is parlous economic on fact.  Mike complains that competition ...
  3 weeks ago

• The Greed Of Capitalism

  
  A Christian Worldview of Fiction — Authority: 454
  One of the early Twentieth Century "muckraker" novels This topic is too easy — except people have forgotten what the basic assumption of capitalism was. (What are they teaching in schools these days? ) Once upon a time, capitalism was believed to be all about how to give the best products for the lowest ...
  3 weeks ago

• Hope shines through crack in lid of open standards coffin

  
  Tony Collins's IT Projects Blog — Authority: 89
  Woah there, cowboy. The UK hasnt broken its open standards pledge quite yet. The Cabinet Office may have rescinded its open standards policy. It might even be about to put it to public consultation after it had already received a democratic mandate as manifesto commitments of both parties in the coalition government. ...
  3 weeks ago

• I Signed Up For Verizon DSL Back In September. They Forgot That I Exist.

  
  Consumerist — Authority: 736
  Heather signed up for Verizon DSL service at her new place last September. So shes been enjoying several months of cost-effective Internet service by now, right? Not exactly. Her story is a perfect illustration of why it is that monopolies can make customers miserable. The scheduled installation technician never ...
  3 weeks ago

• Italy decrees attack on monopolies and vested interests

  
  top99news - breaking news from the world top newspapers — Authority: 165
  http://www.guardian.co.uk Italy decrees attack on monopolies and vested interests Technocratic government appears to be headed for showdown with unions as it unveils law targeting restrictive practicesItaly’s new government is planning a broad, swift attack on the vested interests in Italian society, ...
  3 weeks ago

• Fascism is and has been creeping into American life every day

  
  InvestmentWatch: Emerging markets, Real Estate, Personal finance, Business management, Politics, Economics — Authority: 149
  There are 2 components: Economic and Political. For nascent political fascism, look no further than the NDAA law signed over Christmas from Hawaii which states that the military can detain citizens on suspicion without trial. The writ of Habeus Corpus has been suspended after over 200 years in this country. The ...
  3 weeks ago

• Former State Assets Regulator: SOE Monopolies “Natural”

  
  WSJ.com: China Journal — Authority: 125
  Reuters Natural monopoly? A PetroChina gas station in Suining, Sichuan province. Natural monopoly. That’s the new term that China’s former state assets regulator has used to describe the dominance of the country’s giant state-owned enterprises – a dominance that economists and rivals say has been ...
  4 weeks ago

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