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Amazon is a perfect #enshittification parable - platforms subsidize end users until they're locked in, then make life good for business customers at users' expense, until *they're* locked in, then claw back all the value they can, leaving just enough to keep the lock-in going.
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In a new report for @SOMO, @margaridasilva2 describes how the end-stage enshittification of Amazon is playing out in the #EU, with Amazon repeating its US playbook.
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#BigTech steals from news, but what it steals isn't *content*. Talking about the news isn't theft, and neither is linking to it, or excerpting it. But stealing *money*? That's *definitely* theft.
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Big Tech steals money from the news media. 51% of every ad-dollar is claimed by a tech intermediary, a middleman that squats on a chokepoint between advertisers and publishers.
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In Bezos's original plan, the company called "Amazon" was called "Relentless," due to its ambition to be "Earth's most customer-centric company." Today, Amazon is an enshittified endless scroll of paid results, where winning depends on ad budgets, not quality. 1/
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Writing in Jeff Bezos's newspaper the @WashingtonPost, veteran tech reporter @geoffreyfowler reports on the state of his boss's "relentless" commitment to customer service. The state is grim.
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Last week, a US District Court blocked the merger of @penguinrandom, the world's largest publisher, and @simonschuster, the world's third-largest publisher. This is very, very good news.
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During the trial, the Penguin Random House argued it they would continue to compete with Simon and Schuster for books, bidding against them for prized titles. 3/
This week, the White House released its antimonopoly for the tech sector. It's important, because a free, fair and open internet is a necessary precondition for organizing all our other fights about human rights, equity, labor, the climate, and racial and gender justice. 1/
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The White House plan is a mixed bag. They set out six action points, each of them amorphous enough that they could all be summarized as "the devil is in the details" - that is, depending on how these are handled, they could be great, or terrible. 3/
This week on my podcast, I read "Vertically Challenged," my latest @locusmag column, on the "vertical integration" of #BigTech firms, who have merged and acquired their way to dominance:
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While tech firms practice many kinds of vertical integration, the most important one is the business of *being* a platform and *competing* on a platform. 3/
My latest @locusmag column is "Vertically Challenged," an analysis of why and how to break up #BigTech, and the changing narratives of tech leaders that make these breakups likely.
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Sf has always trafficked in tales of supergenius tycoons - sometimes as heroes whose singular vision shines through our collective foolishness, and sometimes as supervillains whose great intellect allows them to subordinate whole nations to their self-interested plans. 2/
These narratives have been of enormous use to the tech leaders who conquered the tech landscape. At first, they styled themselves as Tony Stark-style superbeings whose wisdom was so beyond our ken that they could not be challenged. 3/
