happy mutants Big Tech got big because we stopped enforcing antitrust law (not because tech is intrinsically monopolistic) Cory Doctorow
Business All the economists who told the FTC we shouldn't break up Big Tech are paid by Big Tech Cory Doctorow
happy mutants New York City! I'm onstage tonight with Radiolab's Jad Abumrad (Swarthmore, you're next!) Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Want the platforms to police bad speech and fake news? The copyright wars want a word with you. Cory Doctorow
Business Facebook kremlinology: Instagram founders' exodus signals immanent facebookization Cory Doctorow
happy mutants My closing Decentralized Web Summit keynote: "Big Tech's problem is Big, not Tech" Cory Doctorow
finance Big Tech is losing the public's trust in just the same way that Big Finance has Cory Doctorow
elections "Free market" conservatives, aghast at Big Tech's hostility, become overnight Roosevelt-style trustbusters Cory Doctorow
happy mutants Big Tech's active moderation promise is also a potential source of eternal commercial advantage over newcomers Cory Doctorow
antitrust Sign of the times: Big Tech comes together to create interoperability tool so users can move between services Cory Doctorow
Copyfight The EU's Link Tax will be voted on in TWO DAYS: if passed, you won't be able to link to the news except on Big Tech's licensed platforms Cory Doctorow
Business Big Tech has established a "kill zone" of business ideas that startups can't get funded to try Cory Doctorow
Copyfight Thanks to streaming, recording industry revenues are back up to pre-internet levels, but musicians are poorer than ever Cory Doctorow
surveillance capitalism Offering users transparency and privacy is the only way Big Tech can avoid being turned into content cops Cory Doctorow
Business The first-ever rigorous quantitative study of US artistic revenue from internet indies: 14.8M Americans earned $5.9B in 2016 Cory Doctorow
