“I keep thinking there has to be a reason they've suspended me, even though it could just be some algorithmic glitch or something”, we keep wanting to make sense of the algorithmic black boxes beloved by big tech monopolists. businessinsider.com/google-users-l…
But just imagine waking up and all your email is gone. All your receipts. All your letters. All everything. And there’s nobody to talk to, nobody to appeal to, nobody to correct the mistake. Now tell me again about how Gmail is “fee” in face of such a ruinous possibility?
The problem is that free only scales if it’s faceless. Automated. Algorithmically dispensed. There’s no margin for humanity or appeals or process when the price is nil. So you take your chances, and you hope the worst thing that could happen just doesn’t happen to you.
Or, you reconsider the concept of price. And of risk. And of what you hold dear, and what you’d like to see more of in the world. And you put your money where your heart is. Which should be anywhere but big tech, as far as you can possible make it.
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