watching https://libre.video/videos/watch/fb9554dc-1d02-4287-88ef-a897e488e80c and Cory #Doctorow is most definitely is right about the creeping conglomeration of powers across industries, to a small set of very powerful individuals, due to a lack of consumer rights, the elimination of competition, and the ongoing weakening of anti-trust rules and user protection entities
"For a really competitive, innovative, dynamic marketplace, you need adversarial interoperability - that’s when you create a new product or service that plugs into the existing ones without the permission of the companies that make them."
also 👉 "#Enshittification - greed causing the decay of online platforms and the degradation of the internet.
A seemingly inevitable consequence arising from the combination of the ease of changing how a platform allocates value, combined with the nature of a “two sided market,” where a platform sits between buyers and sellers, hold each hostage to the other, raking off an ever-larger share of the value that passes between them."
Just like pimps have always done, since the dawn of time :guillotine:
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