“In a time of global unrest and revolt against rising #inequality and #authoritarianism, the #Guillotine #Emoji would serve as a reminder to states and elites to not take for granted the Hobbesian #monopoly on #violence they have been entrusted with by their peoples.”

source: carrozo.com/guillotine-emoji

“It is time for our global visual language to leverage the representation of this historic object in the global digital commons, before it is too late and real #guillotines are erected in our public squares.”

#resistance #revolution #frenchRevolution #politics #democracy #protest #history #elite #finance #money #billionaire #eattherich #future #freedom #demonstration #sign #humanity #humanrights #society #people

Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury rules

https://www.theverge.com/policy/912689/live-nation-ticketmaster-antitrust-monopoly-trial-verdict

#news #tech #music #business #ticketmaster #monopoly

Ticketmaster is an illegal monopoly, jury finds

A Manhattan jury reached a verdict in the antitrust trial between more than 30 state attorneys general and Live Nation-Ticketmaster.

^{Lauren Feiner (The Verge)}

Google has been declared a monopolist, but will the company finally be broken up or are we about to see the limits of antitrust once again?

On #TechWontSaveUs, I spoke with Rob Larson about where Google’s monopoly fight goes from here and what we should remember about how Microsoft evaded being broken up in the early 2000s.

Full ep: https://techwontsave.us/episode/238_will_googles_monopoly_be_broken_up_w_rob_larson

#tech #google #antitrust #competition #monopoly #microsoft