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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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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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It's no longer controversial to claim that #BigTech is a parasite on the #news business. But there's still a raging controversy over the nature of the parasitism, and, much more importantly, *what to do about it*.
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This week on @EFF's Deeplinks blog, I kick off a new series on the abusive relationship between Big Tech and the news, analyzing four different dirty practices and proposing policy answers to all four:
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Last week, @markgurman published a blockbuster story in @Business, revealing #Apple's plan to allow third-party #Ios #AppStores to comply with the #EU's #DigitalMarketsAct. @Apple didn't confirm it, but I believe it. Gurman's sourcing was impeccable:
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This is a huge deal. While Apple's "curated" approach to software delivers benefits to users, those benefits are unreliable. As I explain in a new post for @EFF's Deeplinks blog, Apple only fights for its users when doing so is good for its shareholders. 3/
#ContentModeration is fundamentally about making social media work better, but there are two other considerations that determine how social media *fails*: #EndToEnd (#E2E), and #FreedomOfExit. 1/
These are much neglected, and that's a pity, because how a system fails is every bit as important as how it works. 2/
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Mobile tech is a duopoly run by two companies - Google and Apple - with a combined $3.5T market cap. Each uses a combination of tech, law, contract and market power to force sellers to do commerce via apps, and each extracts a *massive* commission in-app sales - 15-30%! 1/
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This is bad for users and workers. Many companies' gross margins are less than 30%. In some categories, that means there's *no* competition. 3/
A leak from the @EU_EDPB reveals that the #EU's top #privacy regulator is about to overrule the Irish Data Protection Commission and declare #Facebook's business model illegal, banning #surveillance-based #ads without explicit consent:
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In some ways, this is unsurprising. Since the #GDPR's beginning, it's been crystal clear that the intention of the landmark privacy regulation was to extinguish commercial surveillance and ring down the curtain on #ConsentTheater. 3/
Der #DigitalMarketsAct ist eine beispiellose Gesetzgebung für Verbraucherschutz & Einhaltung von (Straf-)Gesetzen. Hier das Beste aus 81 (!) Seiten. #DMA #Breton #Zensur (?)🧵 1/
Vorweg: ich schreibe diesen Thread, weil die @tagesschau leider keine Hinweise hierzu in Artikel aufgenommen hat und ich schockiert von den Kommentaren darunter bin. Also los, was bringt der #DMA wirklich? Ist es eine Zensur wie in autoritären Ländern oder ein Befreiungsschlag?..
1. DMA trifft nur „Gatekeeper“, also z.B. Google, Apple, Amazon, Twitter, WhatsApp, YouTube und weitere richtig große Plattformen. Diese müssen direkt/indirekt eine bestimmte Anzahl (Millionengröße) an Nutzern haben. 2/
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/
Facebook users claim to hate the service, but they keep using it, leading many to describe Facebook as "addictive." But there's a simpler explanation: people keep using Facebook though they hate it because they don't want to lose their connections to the *people* they love. 1/
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Calling Facebook "addictive" plays into the company's own mythology, the sales-pitch they make to advertisers, in which they claim to be neuro-sorcerers whose mastery of "big data" and "dopamine loops" can sell anything to anyone, which is why you should buy ads on Facebook 3/
Remember when they sneered at Geocities pages for being an unusable eyesore? True, they had some, uh, *idiosyncratic* design choices, but at least they reflected a real person's exuberant ideas about what looked and worked well. Today's web is an unusable eyesore *by design*. 1/
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Start with those fucking "sign up for our newsletter" interruptors. Email is the last federated protocol, publishers are desperate to get you to sign up to their newsletter, which nominally bypasses Big Tech's chokepoint on communications between creators and audiences. 3/
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It's only natural: much of the rhetoric and stated goals of the people behind these technologies intersect with my longstanding causes, like access to cryptography and decentralized communities (what we used to call #P2P). 3/
L'Europa approva il #DigitalServicesAct storica riforma per regolare il lavoro delle piattaforme social @Meta @MetaNewsroom @Twitter @Google contro disinformazione e intolleranza
Nel thread, a cura @LuissDataLab @IDMO_it , ecco di che cosa si tratta 1/ idmo.it
Nel thread, a cura @LuissDataLab @IDMO_it , ecco di che cosa si tratta 1/ idmo.it
Le piattaforme social non potranno più mirare a utenti minorenni con pubblicità online dirette. Sono vietate le manipolazioni occulte di algoritmi per indirizzare i cittadini verso certi contenuti, scelti dalle piattaforme per lucro, soprattutto se basati su sesso, 2/
identità etnica o sessuale, età, religione, aree politiche. Le piattaforme dovranno comunicare, in trasparenza, come combattono la disinformazione, a fatti e non slogan, e la propaganda bellica, attiva e senza controlli soprattutto dopo la guerra in #Ucraina. 3/
A historical accident made Massachusetts a lab for studying how tech can serve monopolies, and the moves, countermoves and counter-countermoves show how businesses, tinkerers, governments and the public can liberate themselves from seemingly all-powerful monopolists. 1/
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It all starts with #RightToRepair. Companies love to monopolize the repair of their products. If the only place to get your broken stuff fixed is at its manufacturer's authorized depots, the manufacturer can move all kinds of value from your side of the deal to their own. 3/
Here's the theory behind Europe's #GDPR: if an online service wants to collect, store and/or process your personal information, it has to obtain your real, informed consent for each of those activities. 1/
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In theory, this should have exterminated surveillance-based "behavioral" ads. In practice, nothing of the sort has happened...yet. 3/
Tech monopoly apologists insist that there's something exceptional about tech that makes it so concentrated: "network effects" (when a product gets better because more people use it, like a social media service).
They're wrong.
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Tech is concentrated because the Big Tech companies buy up or crush their nascent competitors - think of Facebook's predatory acquisition of Instagram, which Zuckerberg admitted (in writing!) was driven by a desire to recapture the users who were leaving FB in droves.
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I see a bit more interesting interaction between data protection rules and the #DigitalMarketsAct. Two points: (1) the obligation for gatekeepers to refrain from combining personal data from any other services offered by the gatekeeper or w PD from 3rd-party services, unless 1/
"unless the end user has been presented with the specific choice and provided consent in the sense of the GDPR" (Art. 5(a) of the proposal). And 2) the obligation for gatekeepers to submit to COM an annual independent audit w a description of the user profiling techniques 2/ #DMA
There are also data sharing obligations with third parties, including personal data, which are quite interesting. In fact, one of them speaks of "continuous and real time access" offered to business users (Art. 6(1)(i)) #DSA 3/
1/ Importante para el futuro de #Internet.
Hoy #UE revelará el 1º borrador de Directivas sobre Servicios Digitales (#DigitalServicesAct #DSA) y sobre Mercados Digitales (#DMA o #DigitalMarketsAct) para sustituir la Directiva de Comercio Electrónico del año 2000.
Abrimos hilo 👇
Hoy #UE revelará el 1º borrador de Directivas sobre Servicios Digitales (#DigitalServicesAct #DSA) y sobre Mercados Digitales (#DMA o #DigitalMarketsAct) para sustituir la Directiva de Comercio Electrónico del año 2000.
Abrimos hilo 👇
2/ #DSA influirá en muchos ámbitos:
#desinformación, libertad de expresión & información, protección de consumidores, #transparencia, modelos de negocio basados en #datos, #privacidad y #ProtecciónDeDatos, regulando como será el futuro de #Internet y de los #DerechosDigitales
#desinformación, libertad de expresión & información, protección de consumidores, #transparencia, modelos de negocio basados en #datos, #privacidad y #ProtecciónDeDatos, regulando como será el futuro de #Internet y de los #DerechosDigitales
3/ La #DSA es una oportunidad para poner las personas y sus #derechos en el centro, creando una legislación basada en los derechos humanos.
Es importante no caer en los mismos errores de la #DirectivaCopyright y las legislaciones de otros países como Francia y Alemania
Es importante no caer en los mismos errores de la #DirectivaCopyright y las legislaciones de otros países como Francia y Alemania
Some thoughts on the latest developments on the #DigitalMarketsAct. According to a presentation that has been floating around Brussels for a few days (made public today by @LauKaya ), size, dependency, and entrenchment could form the criteria to define gatekeeper platforms. 1/5
The same presentation also gives an overview of the evidence base in support of the #DMA. Let’s see if there’s something in these reports that could shed some light on the 3 possible criteria for gatekeepers. 2/5
Well, it turns out that the Observatory’s expert group has dealt in depth with the first two possible criteria: size and dependency. So how to measure size? Seems it is hard to get around the number of users. 3/5
