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21 Feb

There's an old Irish joke whose punchline goes, "If you want to get there, I wouldn't start from here." That's basically how I feel about the so-called Australian "link tax" and Facebook's retaliation.

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Let's start with the fact that it's not a link tax - it's a form of arbitrated collective bargaining that's meant to correct an imbalance in negotiating power created by monopolization.

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The problem that the system is supposed to ameliorate is that the ad-tech platforms cheat. They lie about the reach of their ads. They lie about the performance of their ads. They rig markets so they can price-gouge. They collude to rig prices.

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21 Feb

The K-shaped recovery - where the rich got richer and the poor got poorer - wasn't inevitable. It is the outcome of hard lobbying by the investor class to turn on floods of money to the rich, while starving the poor of money, rent-relief and debt-relief.

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This has enabled wealthy people to increase their fortunes through asset inflation (STONKS) and financial engineering (buybacks, tax refunds, and bonuses) and cash-transfers (personal LLCs taking in vast PPP loans).

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It also drove poor people into unsafe working conditions as the only alternative to homelessness and starvation, which let the rich keep their businesses open and supplied a pool of "essential worker" labor to deliver food and even serve in-person diners.

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21 Feb

Cool World (1992) gameraboy1.tumblr.com/post/643693273…

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21 Feb

Tron (1982) atomic-chronoscaph.tumblr.com/post/643705579…

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20 Feb

Today's Twitter threads (a Twitter thread).

Inside: Tech trustbusting's moment has arrived; Signed copies of HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM; and more!

Archived at: pluralistic.net/2021/02/20/esc…

#Pluralistic

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On Feb 22, I'm delivering a keynote address for the NISO Plus conference, "The day of the comet: what trustbusting means for digital manipulation."

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https://twitter.com/doctorow/status/1363164605317402624

Tech trustbusting's moment has arrived: The end of the beginning is at hand.

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20 Feb

@OZM

Last summer, @OZM published my book HOW TO DESTROY SURVEILLANCE CAPITALISM - an antimonopoly critique of Big Tech that's skeptical of its self-serving claims to have perfected digital manipulation and looks to monopoly to explain our weird discourse.

onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy…

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Last month, Onezero published the book between covers, with an all-new additional chapter. It's a beautiful little book, perfect for people whose screen-burned eyes seek rest in a physical object.

bookshop.org/books/how-to-d…

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@DarkDel

Yesterday, @DarkDel, my local bookseller, got its shipment of the book, and I popped in and signed 25 of them. You can order a signed copy here (with a personalized inscription, if you'd like!):

darkdel.com/store/p2024/Av…

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