Cory Doctorow<p>At the same time, the FTC has *also* taken up labor rights, using its *much* broader powers to do things like ban <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/noncompetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noncompetes</span></a> nationwide, unshackling workers from bosses who claim the right to veto who else they can work for:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#neofeudal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its</span><span class="invisible">-the-economy-stupid/#neofeudal</span></a></p><p>But the NLRB doesn't make the FTC redundant, or vice-versa. The NLRB role is principally reactive, punishing wrongdoing after it occurs. </p><p>10/</p>
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Cory Doctorow<p>These amendments were just *wild*. Rep. <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/ScottFitzgerald" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>ScottFitzgerald</span></a> (R-WI) introduced an amendment that would give companies carte blanche to stick you with unlimited <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/JunkFees" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JunkFees</span></a>, and allow corporations to take away their workers' rights to change jobs through <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/noncompetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noncompetes</span></a>:</p><p><a href="https://www.congress.gov/congressional-report/118th-congress/house-report/269" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="ellipsis">congress.gov/congressional-rep</span><span class="invisible">ort/118th-congress/house-report/269</span></a></p><p>Another amendment would block the FTC from enforcing against "unfair methods of competition." </p><p>20/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>Khan's wielding this broad power in all kinds of exciting ways. For example, she's seeking a ban on <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/noncompetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noncompetes</span></a>, a form of bondage that shackles workers to shitty bosses by making it illegal to work for anyone else in the same industry:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#neofeudal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its</span><span class="invisible">-the-economy-stupid/#neofeudal</span></a></p><p>36/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>III. They were able to *hoard* the twiddling, using laws like the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DMCA</span></a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/CFAA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>CFAA</span></a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Noncompetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Noncompetes</span></a>, <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/TradeSecrecy" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TradeSecrecy</span></a>, and other "<a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/IP" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>IP</span></a>" laws to control the conduct of their competitors, critics and customers:</p><p><a href="https://locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doctorow-ip/" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">locusmag.com/2020/09/cory-doct</span><span class="invisible">orow-ip/</span></a></p><p>That last point is important: it's not just that big corporations twiddle us to death - it's that they have made it illegal for us to twiddle back. Adblock is possible on the web, but to ad-block your <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/Iphone" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>Iphone</span></a>, you must first jailbreak it, which is a crime.</p><p>23/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p>These three - <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/TimWu" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>TimWu</span></a>, recently departed from the White House; <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/LinaKhan" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>LinaKhan</span></a> at the FTC; and <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/JonathanKanter" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>JonathanKanter</span></a> at the DOJ - wasted no time turning word into deed, taking on mergers, addressing anticompetitive conduct (like blocking <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/noncompetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noncompetes</span></a> and protecting <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/RightToRepair" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>RightToRepair</span></a>), and filing suit against abusive firms:</p><p><a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/rest-in-piss-robert-bork/#harmful-dominance" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2022/05/09/res</span><span class="invisible">t-in-piss-robert-bork/#harmful-dominance</span></a></p><p>24/</p>
Cory Doctorow<p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/5yrsago" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>5yrsago</span></a> Announcing the Catalog of Missing Devices: the amazing stuff the <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/DMCA" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>DMCA</span></a> has strangled in its cradle <a href="https://www.eff.org/missing-devices" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://www.</span><span class="">eff.org/missing-devices</span><span class="invisible"></span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/1yrago" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1yrago</span></a> How <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/noncompetes" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>noncompetes</span></a> shackle workers to dead-end jobs <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#neofeudal" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its</span><span class="invisible">-the-economy-stupid/#neofeudal</span></a></p><p><a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/1yrago" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>1yrago</span></a> To fight <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/inflation" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>inflation</span></a>, fight <a href="https://mamot.fr/tags/monopolies" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#<span>monopolies</span></a> <a href="https://pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its-the-economy-stupid/#overinflated" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener noreferrer" translate="no"><span class="invisible">https://</span><span class="ellipsis">pluralistic.net/2022/02/02/its</span><span class="invisible">-the-economy-stupid/#overinflated</span></a></p><p>6/</p>
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