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A comment on Cory Doctorow's next book: Chokepoint Capitalism. Parent comment

Re:Cory Doctorow's next book: Chokepoint Capitalism by erellsworth on Thursday August 18, 2022 @09:29AM (#32509285)
This is called recuperation, and it's fairly common. Rather than censoring ideas, capitalism just turns them into another commodity and dilutes their potency.

The Black Mirror episode Fifteen Million Merits shows exactly how it works.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Recuperation_(politics)

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Re:Cory Doctorow's next book: Chokepoint Capitalism by TheCoelacanth on Thursday August 18, 2022 @03:57PM (#32514152)
Subscribe to Netflix to find out more about it. You really can't get away from it.
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Re:Cory Doctorow's next book: Chokepoint Capitalism by erellsworth on Friday August 19, 2022 @10:18AM (#32521252)
I mean, you can always sail the seven seas, amirite?
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