Links 25/03/2024: Apple Woes in China (and in the US, Too)
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Leftovers
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Health/Nutrition/Agriculture
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Science Alert ☛ Study: Being Double-Jointed Predicts Greater Risk of Long COVID
An unexpected new risk factor.
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Science Alert ☛ Scientists Warn The Price of Food Is Expected to Increase Every Year From Now on
The disturbing new normal.
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Sudan: 5 million at risk of starvation due to war, UN says
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Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Del Monte Is Turning Kenya Into a Pineapple Republic
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CBC ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] As more people choose the single life, researchers ask: are they happier?
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] The silent pandemic: Loneliness a threat to democracy?
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Proprietary/Artificial Intelligence (AI)
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New York Times ☛ Has China Lost Its Taste for the iPhone?
Apple has deep ties in the country, its second-largest market. But there are signs that Chinese consumers are becoming a harder sell.
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Tom's Hardware ☛ Steve Jobs signed Fashion Company Apple Computer business card achieves over $180,000 at auction — about 14X more expensive than an unsigned card
A Steve Jobs signed Fashion Company Apple Computer business card has achieved an astonishing $181,183 at auction. Boston-based RR Auctions sold this 'highly coveted' computer history artifact which was listed as an 'extremely rare, perfectly graded Steve Jobs-signed Fashion Company Apple Computer business card from circa 1983.'
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Security
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Integrity/Availability/Authenticity
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Privacy/Surveillance
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Defence/Aggression
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AntiWar ☛ Can Congress Ban TikTok?
“Congress shall make no law … abridging the freedom of speech.” ~ First Amendment to the U.S. Constitution When James Madison set about to draft the Bill of Rights – the first 10 amendments to the U.S. Constitution – he was articulating what lawyers and philosophers and judges call “negative rights.”
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] UN Nuclear Watchdog Chief Visits Syria to Restart Talks
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HRW ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Jordan: Ensure Accountability, Compensation for Syria Strikes
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HRW ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Reject Saudi Bid to Chair UN Women’s Rights Forum
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Saudi Arabia's thriving startup scene driven by women [Ed: DW does femmewashing for the Saudis]
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Haiti Gang Violence Escalates Crisis
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The Local SE ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Swedish gang criminal reportedly killed in shooting in Turkey
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BIA Net ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Turkey's first 'single mothers' association' established
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Israel-Hamas war: First ship unloads Gaza aid
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Indian navy captures ship from Somali pirates, rescues crew
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Alliance of Sahel States: Another Wrong Answer for the Wrong Question from Africa
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] German schools must prepare students for war, German minister says
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Germany's colonial era: Battling oblivion with art
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Togoland: Germany's first and smallest African colony
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HRW ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Opposition Leader in Court in Central African Republic
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Counter Punch ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Pentagon Spending and National (In)Security
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] UK dispute over deportations to Rwanda heats up
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Crimea: 10 years on, fight to liberate peninsula continues
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] North Korean leader Kim oversees millitary drills
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Russia, Belarus, and War in Ukraine
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Latvia probes EU lawmaker for Kremlin spying
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Putin: Tracing the president's political metamorphosis
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Environment
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The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-22 [Older] Fierce debate as scientists struggle to explain ‘really weird’ spike in world temperatures
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Stanford University ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Youth in Climate Action: Tackling the “Afterthought” Mentality
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The Local SE ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Sweden's climate watchdog slams government for 'misleading' net zero claims
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Higher Temperatures Mean Higher Food and Other Prices. A New Study Links Climate Shocks to Inflation
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Vox ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Meet the EPA’s new Choose Your Own Adventure! regulation for car pollution
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The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Climate protestors dealt a blow with extended sentences
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Challenges to SEC's Climate Rules Sent to Conservative-Leaning US Appeals Court
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BIA Net ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] 'Climate in Turkey could become warmer, drier, and more unpredictable'
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Fossil fuel majors miss the mark on climate targets
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] SEC Climate Rule Prompts a Rush to Sue. Experts Say Companies Are Likely to Prepare to Comply Anyway
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Vox ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] The next big climate deadline is for meat and dairy
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Vox ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Why did geologists reject the “Anthropocene” epoch? It’s not rock science.
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] How far Countries are Serious about Collaborating to Address Global Climate Issues
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TruthOut ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] 2023 Shattered Key Climate Metrics, World Meteorological Organization Finds
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CBC ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] 'Like an elephant sitting on my chest': Wildfires lower Canada's air quality ranking
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] UN weather agency sounds 'red alert' on climate
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Vox ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Japan’s cherry blossoms are a marker of natural time — and how climate change is altering it
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Modern Diplomacy ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Bangladesh’s Climate Advocacy: Efforts of the Global South in Pursuit of Climate Justice
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Last Generation stages protests across Germany
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Energy/Transportation
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CBC ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] 'We should abandon the fantasy of phasing out oil and gas': Saudi oil CEO [Ed: Well, that's just what he says, not what he does]
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TruthOut ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Mozambican Climate Activists Are Taking on Multinational Gas Giants
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TruthOut ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Voters Want Oil and Gas Industry to Pay for Clean Energy Transition
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] IAEA's Grossi tells DW about growing role for nuclear energy
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US News And World Report ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Mexico Presidential Candidate Sheinbaum Vows to Boost State Energy Sector
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NL Times ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Temporary emergency energy fund expected to close on Monday
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NL Times ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Housing shortage means energy label is no longer a deal-breaker for many buyers
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Finance
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Jacobin Magazine ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Europe’s Investment Bank Shouldn’t Prop Up Private Capital
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] No strikes as Deutsche Bahn, train drivers to resume talks
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You can now own a digital bobblehead of the man that laid off 900 people at PlayStation before he retired
The latest PlayStation Stars digital collectible is a bobblehead of Jim Ryan, the soon to be former PlayStation boss whose last major act at the company is laying 900 people off.
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Retrenchments doubled last year; here’s how to prepare for 2024 layoffs in Singapore
The Labour Market Report for the fourth quarter of 2023 showed that despite showing resilience throughout the year, the incidence of retrenchment in 2023 (6.7 per 1,000 employees) grew to more than double the low figure observed in 2022 (3.1 per 1,000 employees).
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AstroTurf/Lobbying/Politics
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New York Times ☛ Big Republican Donor Jeff Yass Owned Shares in Trump Media Merger Partner
The billionaire Wall Street financier is also a major investor in ByteDance, the Chinese parent company of TikTok, which faces a possible ban in the United States.
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International Business Times ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] From Photoshop To 'You Don't Look Like An MP', Female Politicians Are Still Judged On Their Appearance
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Germany's far-right AfD, Elon Musk share complex relationship
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Swiss police halt Martin Sellner's far-right rally
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Misinformation/Disinformation/Propaganda
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Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Threads Adds 'Trending' Page, Moving Ever Closer to Old Twitter [Ed: Imitating crap that influences minds at scale, on behalf of platform owners (the "rage machine")]
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Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Facebook Gives ‘Poke’ a New Life
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Reuters ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Meta Offers to Reduce No-Ads Subscription Fee for Facebook and Instagram in EU, but Critics Want No Fee at All
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Censorship/Free Speech
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JURIST ☛ US federal judge declines to dismiss lawsuit against California cities for cancelling Gaetz and Greene rally
A federal judge in California on Friday declined to dismiss a lawsuit brought by US Representatives Matt Gaetz and Marjorie Taylor-Greene against California cities Anaheim and Riverside. Gaetz and Greene, who are members of the Republican Party, claim that the cities violated their free-speech rights by cancelling their planned political rally because of their viewpoints.
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Hong Kong Free Press ☛ Repeatedly reposting overseas criticism of new security law online could risk violation, justice minister says
Hongkongers who repeatedly repost, and agree with, overseas criticism of the city’s new, domestic national security law could breach the legislation if they are found to have been inciting hatred against the authorities, justice minister Paul Lam has said.
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Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-18 [Older] Banned Books Back! & We Are All Sacrifice Zones
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Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Pornhub Drops Texas, Time to Unplug Your Laptop, Bad Royal Photoshops, Franken-Sheep and More
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Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Abortion Services Censored on Social Platforms Globally
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Ars Technica ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Using ASCII Art to Work Around Content Restrictions in the Top 5 AI Chatbots
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Freedom of Information / Freedom of the Press
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CPJ ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Hong Kong passes security law that further crushes the media
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] What does the new security law mean for Hong Kong?
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HRW ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Hong Kong: New Security Law Full-Scale Assault on Rights
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Vox ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] With new national security legislation, China shows it will never loosen its grip on Hong Kong
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-16 [Older] Hong Kong: 12 sentenced for storming legislature in 2019
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Civil Rights/Policing
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Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Blueprint for Regression
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Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Controversial New Education System (NES) Sparks Concern in Houston Public Schools
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Project Censored ☛ 2024-03-15 [Older] Equity and Misleading Branding Concerns Raised as “Themed” Schools Rise in Popularity
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Digital Restrictions (DRM)
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Digital Music News ☛ How Many People Listen to Joe Rogan? — Now We Have Data
How many people listen to Joe Rogan? Data shows that his reach far eclipses that of other podcasters on Spotify. Bloomberg reported that Spotify quietly began testing a new feature showing podcast follower counts on shows’ landing pages on the Spotify mobile app.
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CBC ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] How a Silicon Valley trend is impacting an $8B Canadian farm industry
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The Kent Stater ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Green bubbles, Apple Pay and other reasons why America says Apple is breaking the law
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Deutsche Welle ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] US sues Apple over 'smartphone monopoly'
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Gizmodo ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] Apple Reportedly Spent 3 Years Trying to Make Apple Watch for Android
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Engadget ☛ 2024-03-20 [Older] Meta, Microsoft, X and Match Group come out swinging against Apple's third-party payment rules
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The Age AU ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Apple, Google and Fortnite maker Epic are heading to court. Why?
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Patents
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IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-19 [Older] Discrepancies in the description should be amended in line with the claims, but do not affect interpretation of the claims (T 0447/22)
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Kangaroo Courts
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IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-21 [Older] First substantive decision of the UPC Court of Appeal overturns preliminary injunction in NanoString v 10x Genomics (UPC_CoA_335/2023) [Ed: UPC is illegal and unconstitutional. This must always be mentioned in relation to "cases" like these...]
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Trademarks
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IP Kat ☛ 2024-03-17 [Older] Old bottles for "New Certan"? Bordeaux wine producer brings unsuccessful passing off claim in the Australian Federal Court
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IP Kat ☛ I spy with my little eye…
On 3 December 2021, Global Trade Services, Inc. (‘GTS’) filed for registration of EU trade mark no. 018615959 for the sign depicted above. Registration was sought for various goods in class 9, including ‘home security cameras; touchscreens; robots with artificial intelligence’.
Hyundai filed an opposition on the basis of five national trade marks registered in Benelux, France, Italy, Spain and Portugal for the figurative mark and the word mark ‘HYUNDAI’, covering, inter alia, goods in class 9, including ‘digital cameras; digital information display [DID]’.
The Opposition Division of the European Union Intellectual Property Office (‘EUIPO’) rejected the opposition. Hyundai appealed.
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Monopolies/Monopsonies
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