Una taxa? Insuficient!!

"On creation of IP, it is important that the wellsprings of human creativity be nourished. AI “scrapers” should be compelled to compensate the owners of the copyright they use. I would go further. A tax on big AI businesses should be dedicated to supporting the creative commons — arts, sciences, journalism — on which their health and that of free societies rests.

#robberbarons #scraping

What to do when the ‘public good’ of information goes bad
https://www.ft.com/content/c1af9258-a77d-469c-8b8b-b455321786b3?syn-25a6b1a6=1

> Naming and Shaming Food Barons: A Q https://ips-dc.org/naming-and-shaming-food-barons-a-qa-with-austin-frerick/

Interview with the author of the book 'Barons.'

#BadEconomy #corruption #exploitation #BigAg #BigBusiness #RobberBarons #books #reading #Bookstodon

All of this is just a pretext,
but also: a precedent.

The way #progressives can weaponize this is by targeting school books for children that whitewash the #history of #slavery, #colonization, #genocide, the #RobberBarons & texts glorifying the #American #elite.

In a common law system, all this is fair game. I just so happen to think that common law is a rickety Rube Goldberg machine.

A Nationwide Book Ban Bill Has Been Introduced in the House of Representatives
https://bookriot.com/hr7661-book-ban-legislation/

“Well Doctor, what have we got a republic or a monarchy?” asked Elizabeth Willing Powel of Benjamin Franklin.
“A republic,” replied Franklin. “If you can keep it.”

#democracy #freedom #trump #robberbarons #oligarchy

https://spawningfish.substack.com/p/the-freedom-twins?r=473d8h

We don't hate #England enough.

It's basically the #USA of #Europe. A whole country built on some of the worst atrocities in human history.

Literally created the #USA and #Israel, built its #wealth on forced #labor and #land theft, and is turning full #fascist now even under #Labour.

#Enclosures of the #commons, the #Atlantic #SlaveTrade, #financing the US #GildedAge #RobberBarons, the #Bengal famine, the #BalfourDeclaration, #TERFIsland... all England.

The evil bastard tech aristocrates. They all deserve to go to prison for life.
https://www.theguardian.com/technology/2019/dec/12/musk-bloomberg-bezos-americas-aristocracy-of-tech-robber-barons-lives-by-its-own-rules

#aristocrats
#techbillionaires
#techaristocrats
#eviltechbros
#robberbarons