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Big Tech steals from the news, but what it steals is *money*, not *content*. Talking about the news, excerpting it, linking to it, quoting it - these are all beneficial, normal news activities. If you can't talk about the news, it's not news - it's a *secret*.
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But tech *does* steal from news. A variety of monopolistic tricks allows tech to interpose itself between reporters, publishers and outlets, and the audiences they serve. By creating chokepoints between the news and its audience, tech can extract gigantic sums from the news.
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Amazon is *very* proud of its #flywheel: first, they subsidized customers, luriing in sellers. Then they demanded lower prices, luring more buyers. With more customers, more sellers piled in. Faster the flywheel spins, creating the #EverythingStore:
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The flywheel is everywhere - they even teach it in business-schools. But Amazon is not a reliable narrator. It doesn't tell the truth about the flywheel. To understand what's really going on with the flywheel, you have apply #enshittification to it.
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Two visions competed at the dawn of the modern digital era: computers could be a way to empower people to push back against corporate and state control; or computers could transfer power from the public to corporations or governments. 1/
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I've always been baffled by the technologists who pursued control over liberation: surely their own formative experiences were of the liberatory power of technology. 3/
Chances are you buy your audiobooks on @audible_com, Amazon's monopoly, with a 90+% share in many genres. But my books aren't there. I explain why I forego most of the market in a chapter in "Chokepoint Capitalism," my forthcoming book, co-authored with @rgibli. 1/
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Audible is a classic "chokepoint capitalism" story. 2/
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Audible is a classic "chokepoint capitalism" story. 2/
It's a company that corralled an audience in a walled garden, and uses that control to demand greater and greater concessions from the creators who want to reach them, eventually abandoning all pretense of fairness and literally stealing from creators. 3/
Here's an awful story with a happy ending, one that leaves us with work to do, sure, but also with a clear mission for what to do next. It's about Colorado's "Consumer Right To Repair Powered Wheelchairs Act" which @jaredpolis just signed into law:
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3 million Americans rely on wheelchairs, and many of them use powered wheelchairs. Wheelchairs are amazing assistive devices, which can mean the difference between being stuck at home - or even in bed - and being able to work, go to school, shop, and see family and friends. 3/
