a good thread
the root of all evil in the modern web is monopolism and copyright. the web started getting shit -- truly shit not just banner ads but really bad -- when the acquisition-as-growth monopolism started emerging with tech companies, and when DRM became the default mode of creating lock in.
rather than building new stuff, sufficiently large companies could just buy startups. and so rather than risk losing users, companies could just acquire potential competitors and avoid the risk
and to keep those users locked in, they could add the slimmest of DRM and turn webscraping into a felony
the larger a company is, the more incentive it has to do this and the more resources it has to do this
the solution is to break up the tech giants and repeal section 1201 of the dmca
https://mastodon.social/@Daojoan/110672711639616140
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2023-10-12 15:23:42
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