Pluralistic: A winning trade war strategy for Canada (11 Jan 2026)

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A winning trade war strategy for Canada: Tech giants are also the enemy of American businesses.
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Predistribution vs redistribution (Big Tech edition): A thing that governments can do with 100% reliability.
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Where did the money go? Turning a mountain of (their) money into a pile of (your) money.
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The Post-American Internet: My speech from Hamburg's Chaos Communications Congress.
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America's collapsing consumption is the world's disenshittification opportunity: America's loss is the post-American internet's gain.
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(Digital) Elbows Up: How Canada Can Become a Nation of Jailbreakers, Reclaim Our Digital Sovereignty, Win the Trade-War, and Disenshittify Our Technology.
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O(N^2) nationalism: Trumpism can only be defeated through international nationalism.
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There's one thing EVERY government can do to shrink Big Tech: The path to a post-American internet.
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