Cory Doctorow

how we get solidarity.

So historically, that's the way it worked, right?

But historically, we had antitrust laws that we enforced, which we did for four years under Biden.

We've stopped doing now, except for companies that Donald Trump doesn't like.

Why do we stop doing now?

Because there's this guy who's decided that he's just going to use it against companies that aren't sufficiently deferential to him and don't give him a little gold trophy that they assemble for him.

Well, that's what they're doing.

These companies, they bought all their competitors.

Google, it's not Willy Wonka's Idea Factory.

It's Rich Uncle Pennybags.

They buy other people's toys and play with them.

You take away Google's predatory acquisitions, they wouldn't have a mobile stack, they wouldn't have an ad tech stack, they wouldn't have server management, they wouldn't have document collaboration, they wouldn't have navigation.

They haven't made a successful consumer-facing product in this millennium.

Everything they make dies.

They only have successful products when they buy them from other people and operationalize them.

You're talking mad shit.

about Google right now, man.

But it's not like this fell on our heads or the iron laws of economics dictated it.

We decided not to enforce antitrust law.

And the economists who said, oh, no, monopolies are actually good, today when we're surrounded by monopolies, they're like, how do you know it's our fault?