“IP as a Force for Good”: The Banality of Evil

Adapted from a Twitter post:

The banality of evil on full display: IP shill and buffoon Gene Quinn (https://t.co/pkD0AX0r0f) and clueless technocrat Darren Tang of WIPO (https://t.co/dW9FMao9M7) mirthfully yapping along and praising “IP as a Force for Good”. Πάτερ, ἄφες αὐτοῖς, οὐ γὰρ οἴδασιν τί…

— Stephan Kinsella (@NSKinsella) September 15, 2025

The banality of evil on full display: IP shill and buffoon Gene Quinn and clueless technocrat Darren Tang of WIPO mirthfully yapping along and praising “IP as a Force for Good”. Πάτερ, ἄφες αὐτοῖς, οὐ γὰρ οἴδασιν τί ποιοῦσιν. (“Father, forgive them; they do not know what they are doing.” Luke 23:34)

Here is the latest 2025 International IP Index from the U.S. Chamber of Commerce that they praise for inspiring developing countries to try to “strengthen” their intellectual “property” laws to match the fascistic, insane, US imperialist approach: 2025 International IP Index. Sadly, IP imperialism–lobbying on behalf of US Big Pharma, Hollywood, and the Music Industry—really does work.

Like other so-called “studies,” this stuff is nonsense and proves nothing. See:

• The Overwhelming Empirical Case Against Patent and Copyright;
• USPTO/Commerce Dept. Distortions: “IP Contributes $5 Trillion and 40 Million Jobs to Economy”;
• Pharmaceutical Shills and Think Tank Corruption: Sally Pipes’s The World’s Medicine Chest: How America Achieved Pharmaceutical Supremacy―and How to Keep It;
• Economic Freedom of the World Rankings and Intellectual Property: The United States’ Bad Ranking is Even Worse Than Reported;
• Canada’s “Free Market” Fraser Institute Urges: Strengthen Intellectual Property Law;
• On Leading by Example and the Power of Attraction (Open Source Publishing, Creative Commons, Public Domain Publishing).

Here is how these morons “think”: innovation good; therefore, state granted monopolies that protect people from free market competition and block learning, emulating, copying and competing are good. Well that’s brilliant.