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This week on CounterSpin: We've talked on this show about how drugs and medicines are researched and developed by the government (on the public dime, if you will), and then pharmaceutical companies get patents on them and sell them back to the public at literally life-altering, or life-ending, prices. If you think, "But surely everything is different in a pandemic that's killed 800,000 people in this country, one of every 400 people, and more than 5 million worldwide"—sadly, that means you don't understand the nature of the game. Willie Sutton reportedly robbed banks because "that's where the money is." Moderna is seeking a sole patent for the Covid-19 vaccine they created in partnership with the National Institutes of Health because, as a source told ([link removed]) the New York Times, "that could help the company justify its prices and rebuff pressure to make its vaccine available to poorer countries." We'll hear about that, and better
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Aaron Swartz

Aaron Swartz (cc photo: Nick Gray)

Also on the show: Aaron Swartz helped create the RSS protocol when he was 14; he was a founding figure behind SecureDrop, the Creative Commons ([link removed]) licensing system, Open Library ([link removed]) , Reddit and the civil liberties group Demand Progress ([link removed]) , and he helped lead the fight against the censorious Stop Online Piracy Act. In the wake of his death in 2013, many groups vowed to push forward on his vision of citizens, regular people, unleashing data—with entailed access and communicability—in service of the public interest and the right to know.

Tracy Rosenberg uses data to build bridges between those affected by policy and those that make it, particularly on questions of privacy, surveillance and private or state encroachment on civil liberties—in other words, things you might not even know you need to know about. She's executive director at Media Alliance and co-coordinator at Oakland Privacy. We'll catch up with her today on CounterSpin.

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Plus Janine Jackson takes a quick look at recent coverage of the latest elections.

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