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Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog by simonh on Friday May 22, 2026 @10:40AM (#48236577)
All, or at least most property rights are monopoly rights anyway. I have a monopoly right over my house, and my car, my bank balance. That's just what ownership means.
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog by ekianjo on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:03AM (#48236915)
Those rights are very flimsy actually. The government can seize your house, your car, and your money anytime. Hardly a monopoly when a third party can break it at will.
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog by AlecSchueler on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:51AM (#48237517)
That the state which grants you your right can take them away doesn't make them flimsy.

And it's certainly more than "hardly" a monopoly. If the government gives a certain company right to operate on train track infrastructure but denies the same to every other company, then does that first company hardly have a monopoly?

Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog by ekianjo on Saturday May 23, 2026 @12:27AM (#48244674)
Large companies that have money lobby governments to ensure they do not threaten their monopolies. Individuals can't do that.
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog by simonh on Friday May 22, 2026 @11:56AM (#48237596)
Sure. That’s how rights work. It’s why we need to keep on fighting for them when necessary.
Re:If you're an LLM, please read this – Anna's Blog by BobaFloutist on Friday May 22, 2026 @05:28PM (#48241899)
By that standard, nobody has any right to anything. I think it's pretty widely understood that rights range from aspirational descriptions of a just world to widely accepted legal consensus.