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What are the most capitalist things you've heard about? (reddthat.com)

submitted 1 month ago by PumpkinDrama@reddthat.com to c/asklemmy@lemmy.ml

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[–] kibiz0r@midwest.social 27 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A more recent example comes from the med-tech giant Abbott Labs, which used DMCA 1201 to suppress a tool that allowed people with diabetes to link their glucose monitors to their insulin pumps, in order to automatically calculate and administer doses of insulin in an "artificial pancreas." -eff.org

We joke about someday having to jailbreak our own organs, but we're basically already there.

An exoskeleton let a paralyzed man walk. Then its maker refused repairs.

Doctors Remove Woman’s Brain Implant Against Her Will

[–] BCsven@lemmy.ca 1 points 1 month ago

these are straight out of Repo, the Genetic Opera