About two dozen examples of monopolies in different sectors.

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...computer vision papers often refer to human beings as “objects,” a convention that both obfuscates how common surveillance of humans is in the field, and objectifies humans by definition.

“The studies presented in this paper ultimately reveal that the field of computer vision is not merely a neutral pursuit of knowledge; it is a foundational layer for a paradigm of surveillance...”

In his book The Public Domain, the copyright scholar James Boyle talks about the political salience of the term "ecology." Boyle recounts how, prior to the rise of the word "ecology," there were many standalone issues, but no movement. Sure, you care about owls, and I care about the ozone layer, but what does the gaseous composition of the upper atmosphere have to do with the destiny of charismatic nocturnal avians?

https://thepublicdomain.org/thepublicdomain1.pdf

The term "ecology" welded all these thousands of issues together into a movement.

...MEPs, led by Birgit Sippel from the S&D and Markéta Gregorová from the Greens, single out Facebook owner Meta for its not-so-open "open source AI."

"Meta prohibits the use of its Llama models for the purpose of training other AI systems, and forces anyone who develops a highly successful AI system based on Llama to negotiate a special licence with them," reads the letter.

Meta also doesn't share the code for how it trains its models, but very publicly champions its "open" approach.

"Their AI is only free and open until a business wants to compete with them," the MEPs write. "We urge the Commission and the AI office to clarify that such systems cannot be considered Open Source for the purposes of the AI Act."

More details about Meta's Llama 4 release: https://www.404media.co/facebook-pushes-its-llama-4-ai-model-to-the-right-wants-to-present-both-sides/