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Harm: Privatization

Includes the following practices: placing formerly public institutions, utilities or resources under the control of private corporations; outsourcing public functions to private corporations; expanding the presence and power of private corporations in academic research and education; the use of intellectual property law to move scientific knowledge, production and living things into private ownership; other attacks on the commons, such as moving public land or water into private ownership.

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