Dan GillmorJul 10, 2025

Trump is no longer even pretending that tariffs are about economics. His attack on Brazil's legitimate government is nothing more than says-it-out-loud extortion to protect the fascist former head of state -- part of his global pro-fascist campaign.

https://www.npr.org/2025/07/10/nx-s1-5463508/brazil-lula-trump-tariffs

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Show threadDan GillmorJul 10, 2025
Brazil is responding the old-fashioned, counterproductive way by matching Trump's tariffs in the other direction. A FAR better response: Adopt Cory Doctorow suggestion to make Brazil a tech jailbreak haven, helping tech users and putting a big dent in the the tech monopolists' power.
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Show threadRafaelJul 10, 2025
@dangillmor actually, that’s not true. The biggest chance is to answer by breaking patents, what is a permanent act and make things (specially medicine) actually cheaper for us.
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@rafasgj @dangillmor I've been saying that about Canada, they should invalidate drug patents, or at least green light day 1 generics, in response to tarifs.
Jul 11, 2025 at 3:45amWeb