Cory Doctorow on Nostr: In public, some of these billionaires are icily polite, but many of them degenerate ...
In public, some of these billionaires are icily polite, but many of them degenerate into frothing, toddler-grade name-calling, like IAB's Barry Diller, who called her a "dope" and Musk lickspittle Jason Calacanis, who called her an all-caps COMMUNIST and a LUNATIC.
The overall vibe from these wreckers? "How *dare* the FTC do things?!"
And you know, they have a point. For decades, the FTC was - in the quoted words of Tim Wu - "a very hardworking agency that did nothing."
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