2026-09-28 19:28 UTC
This is the common factor that binds together that mess of legal oddments, from trademark/copyright/patent to nondisparagement and noncompetes to anticircumvention and personality rights.
I think this is both true and a powerful framing. It correctly puts IP in the category of "things corporations do to control you and the rest of the world."
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@pluralistic@mamot.fr 2026-09-28 19:28
I've been trying this out for six years now, and I think it's a winner. But it was only a month or two ago that I realized there was a way in which the use of "property" can also be used to undermine the bullying, censorship and extraction of corporations wielding their IP. Property rights may be our state religion, but they are also the *worst* tool for several important jobs that need doing. 19/