Cory Doctorow
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first heard Jul 2026
last heard 9 Jul
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One of the most disgusting examples of this is there's an American company called Medtronic that pretends it's Irish for tax purposes.
They did the largest tax inversion in history.
They are the largest medtech company in the world.
Diagnostic devices, implants, prostheses, the whole range, right?
And they make the world's workhorse ventilator.
So everyone, every hospital has got a building full of their ventilators.
Right.
And the ventilators use parts pairing.
And during lockdown, you had technicians at the hospitals who were taking like a dead working screen from a dead ventilator and putting it in a dead ventilator or the working screen, vice versa.
And then it just wouldn't recognize it.
because it just couldn't.
And you were supposed to have the technician come and bless the repair, but there were no planes flying.
And this was the moment where we need ventilators more than ever.
And so there were just ventilators that didn't work.
Now, the crazy thing is how this got resolved.
So every country in the world has a law just like DMCA 12.1, including South Africa.
It comes in through the free trade agreements with the U.S.
The U.S.
trade representative has made it the number one trade priority of the U.S.
to get all of its trading partners to enact laws like this, basically to make it illegal everywhere else to dis-and-shitify the products that America exports so that American tech firms can steal all your data and money and so that you can't go into business fixing it.
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