Cory Doctorow on Nostr: I think that gets it backwards. I think that there were *always* enshittifiers in the ...
I think that gets it backwards. I think that there were *always* enshittifiers in the C-suites of these companies. When Page and Brin brought in the war criminal Eric Schmidt to run the company, he surely started every day with a ritual, ferocious tug at that enshittification lever. The difference wasn't who was in the C-suite - the difference was how freely the lever moved.
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