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Inside: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax; and more!
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Today's threads (a thread)
Inside: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax; and more!
Archived at: pluralistic.net/2026/02/25/mos…
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Cory Doctorow
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The whole economy pays the Amazon tax: You can't shop your way out of a monopoly.
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11613095…
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Cory Doctorow
2026-02-25 11:10:19
Cory Doctorow
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Hey look at this
* One Year In: The Good and The (Mostly) Bad and Ugly of Trump Antitrust and Consumer Protection economicpopulist.substack.com/…
* 2025 State of Clutter Report yorba.co/state-of-clutter
* A.I. Isn't People todayintabs.com/p/a-i-isn-t-pe… (h/t Dan Gillmor)
* Color Game dialed.gg/ (h/t Kottke)
* Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds newscientist.com/article/25160… (h/t Kottke)
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Paediatricians’ blood used to make new treatments for RSV and colds
Alice Klein (New Scientist)Cory Doctorow
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#20yrsago Princeton prof explains watermarks’ failures blog.citp.princeton.edu/2006/0…
#20yrsago Palm Beach County voting machines generated 100K anomalies in 2004 web.archive.org/web/2006022517…
#15yrsago Sharing the power in Tahrir Square flickr.com/photos/47421217@N08…
#15yrsago 17-year-old Tim Burton’s rejection from Walt Disney Productions web.archive.org/web/2011022608…
#15yrsago Rare Alan Turing papers bought by Bletchley Park Trust web.archive.org/web/2011022514…
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FlickrCory Doctorow
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#15yrsago Sony considered harmful to makers, innovators and hackers web.archive.org/web/2015101314…
#15yrsago MPAA: record-breaking box-office year is proof that piracy is killing movies arstechnica.com/tech-policy/20…
#15yrsago Super-wealthy clothes horses and their sartorial habits web.archive.org/web/2011021704…
#15yrsago Visualizing the wealth of America’s super-rich ruling class motherjones.com/politics/2011/…
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Piracy once again fails to get in way of record box office
Nate Anderson (Ars Technica)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Obama’s new Librarian of Congress nominee is a rip-snortin’, copyfightin’, surveillance-hatin’ no-foolin’ LIBRARIAN youtube.com/watch?v=iU8vXDoBB5…
#10yrsago Math denialism: crypto backdoors and DRM are the alternative medicine of computer science theguardian.com/technology/201…
#10yrsago Uganda’s corrupt president just stole another election, but he couldn’t steal the Internet web.archive.org/web/2016022509…
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The FBI wants a backdoor only it can use – but wanting it doesn’t make it possible
Cory Doctorow (The Guardian)Cory Doctorow
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#10yrsago Archbishop of St Louis says Girl Scout Cookies encourage sin theguardian.com/us-news/2016/f…
#10yrsago After appointed city manager illegally jacked up prices, Flint paid the highest water rates in America eu.freep.com/story/news/local/…
#10yrsago Baidu browser isn’t just a surveillance tool, it’s a remarkably sloppy one citizenlab.ca/research/privacy…
#5yrsago Why Brits can no longer order signed copies of my books pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…
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Flint residents paid America's highest water rates
John Wisely, Detroit Free Press (Detroit Free Press)Cory Doctorow
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#5yrsago Court rejects TSA qualified immunity pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…
#5yrsago The Mauritanian pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…
#5yrsago EVs as distributed storage grid pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…
#5yrsago Bossware and the shitty tech adoption curve pluralistic.net/2021/02/24/gwb…
#1yrsago How an obscure advisory board lets utilities steal $50b/year from ratepayers pluralistic.net/2025/02/24/sur…
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Pluralistic: 24 Feb 2021 – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netCory Doctorow
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Yesterday's threads: Socialist excellence in New York City; and more!
mamot.fr/@pluralistic/11612508…
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Cory Doctorow
2026-02-24 10:16:31
Cory Doctorow
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My latest novel is "Picks and Shovels," a historical technothriller set in the Weird Era of the PC, about Ponzi schemes, techbros, and the dawn of enshittification:
us.macmillan.com/books/9781250…
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My latest nonfiction book is the internationally bestselling "Enshittification: Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It," from MCD/Farrar, Straus and Giroux:
us.macmillan.com/books/9780374…
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Cory Doctorow
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My ebooks and audiobooks (from FSGxMCD, Tor Books, Head of Zeus, McSweeneys, Beacon, Verso and others) are for sale all over the net, but I sell 'em too, and when you buy 'em from me, I earn twice as much and you get books with no DRM and no license "agreements."
craphound.com/shop/
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Shop | Cory Doctorow's craphound.com
craphound.comCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances:
* #Oslo (remote): Seminar og lansering av rapport om «enshittification», Feb 27
forbrukerradet.no/siste-nytt/d…
* #Victoria: 28th Annual Victoria International Privacy & Security Summit, Mar 3-5
rebootcommunications.com/event…
* #Victoria: Enshittification at Russell Books, Mar 4
eventbrite.ca/e/cory-doctorow-…
* #SanFrancisco: Launch for Cindy Cohn's "Privacy's Defender" (City Lights), Mar 10
citylights.com/events/cindy-co…
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Seminar og lansering av rapport om "enshittification"
Andreas Framnes (Forbrukerrådet)Cory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Barcelona: Enshittification with Simona Levi/Xnet (Llibreria Finestres), Mar 20
llibreriafinestres.com/evento/…
* #Berkeley: Bioneers keynote, Mar 27
conference.bioneers.org/
* #Montreal: Bronfman Lecture (McGill) Apr 10
eventbrite.ca/e/artificial-int…
* #Berlin: Re:publica, May 18-20
re-publica.com/de/news/rp26-sp…
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CORY DOCTOROW - Finestres
FinestresCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-d…
* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
howthelightgetsin.org/festival…
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Cory Doctorow - Otherland Buchhandlung Berlin
www.otherland-berlin.deCory Doctorow
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Upcoming appearances (cont'd):
* #Berlin: Enshittification at Otherland Books, May 19
otherland-berlin.de/de/event-d…
* #HayOnWye: HowTheLightGetsIn, May 22-25
howthelightgetsin.org/festival…
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Cory Doctorow - Otherland Buchhandlung Berlin
www.otherland-berlin.deCory Doctorow
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Recent appearances:
* Making The Internet Suck Less (Thinking With Mitch Joel)
sixpixels.com/podcast/archives…
* Panopticon :3 (Trashfuture)
patreon.com/posts/panopticon-3…
* America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity (Do Not Pass Go)
donotpassgo.ca/p/americas-ensh…
* Everything Wrong With the Internet and How to Fix It, with Tim Wu (Ezra Klein)
nytimes.com/2026/02/06/opinion…
* How the Internet Got Worse (Masters in Business)
youtube.com/watch?v=auXlkuVhxM…
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America's Enshittification is Canada's Opportunity
Do Not Pass Go by Peter Nowak (Do Not Pass Go)Cory Doctorow
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Pluralistic: The whole economy pays the Amazon tax (25 Feb 2026) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow
pluralistic.netjoshbuddy
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Guerric Haché
in reply to joshbuddy • • •@joshbuddy I had no idea Amazon wasn't available in Denmark; I am immediately fascinated by the whys and the what-insteads.
I'm seeing some people say this is partly because Danish labour laws may impose working conditions and pay standards that are higher than Amazon is willing to meet. Interesting.
I'd like for Amazon to be expelled from Canada, so now I have another case study to look at to learn about the issues. Thanks!
RantingCanuck
in reply to Guerric Haché • • •At the risk of sounding like a broken record (because I've said it multiple times)... Canada Post has all the physical infrastructure required to replace Amazon for online shopping in Canada. Creating an online market place where Canadian vendors can list their wares on a fully searchable site with Canada Post providing the warehousing, order consolidation, and delivery / return functions would increase Canadian sovereignty, improve our domestic economy, and make things easier for Canadians.
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Edjo
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Tim Bray
2026-02-25 06:06:43
Jerome
in reply to Cory Doctorow • • •Amazon's "most favored nation" clause does not exist in the EU, this may be one of the reasons: michelmores.com/commercial-ins…
Consequently, it is often possible to find the same products cheaper elsewhere. Not 50% cheaper, though.
Amazon calls quits on e-book 'Most Favoured Nation' clauses | Michelmores
Michelmores