Cory Doctorow on Nostr: There are examples of billionaires' folly all around us today, of course. Take ...
There are examples of billionaires' folly all around us today, of course. Take #privacy: the idea that we can - we should - we *must* - spy on everyone, all the time, in every way, to eke out tiny gains in ad performance is objectively *batshit*. And yet, wealthy people decreed this should be so, and it was, and made them far richer.
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