Cory Doctorow on Nostr: When a company can operate without the discipline of competition, nor of privacy law, ...
When a company can operate without the discipline of competition, nor of privacy law, nor of labor law, nor of fair trading law, with the US government standing by to punish any rival who alters the logic of their service, then enshittification is the *utterly foreseeable* outcome.
To understand how our technology gets distorted by these policy choices, consider "#TheCloud."
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