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Cory Doctorow, Pluralistic, Jul 23, 2024

Cory Doctorow sounds the warning about being dependent on platforms. "The platforms have rigged things so that you must have an account with them in order to function, but they also want to have the unilateral right to kick people off their systems. The combination of these demands represents more power than any company should have, and Big Tech has repeatedly demonstrated its unfitness to wield this kind of power." Too true.

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