Ed Peters on Nostr: npub1hykuc…73p33 "The internet did disintermediate a hell of a lot of ...
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"The internet did disintermediate a hell of a lot of intermediaries – that is, "middlemen" – but then it created a bunch more of these middlemen, who coalesced into a handful of gatekeepers, or as the EU calls them "VLOPs" (Very Large Online Platforms, the most EU acronym ever)."
Let's Americanize it. What's more American than 'Super-sizing' something?
SLOPS: Super Large Online Platforms.
"The internet did disintermediate a hell of a lot of intermediaries – that is, "middlemen" – but then it created a bunch more of these middlemen, who coalesced into a handful of gatekeepers, or as the EU calls them "VLOPs" (Very Large Online Platforms, the most EU acronym ever)."
Let's Americanize it. What's more American than 'Super-sizing' something?
SLOPS: Super Large Online Platforms.