Cory Doctorow on Nostr: What changed wasn't the character of the leaders of these businesses, nor their ...
What changed wasn't the character of the leaders of these businesses, nor their capacity to cheat us. What changed was the *consequences* for cheating. When the tech companies merged to monopoly, they ceased to fear losing your business to a competitor.
Google's 90% search market share was attained by bribing everyone who operates a service or platform where you might encounter a search box to connect that box to Google.
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