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Last night, I traveled to Toronto to deliver the annual Ursula Franklin Lecture… |
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Post #ArVi8DBDD2Dr6286ng by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic OMG this bit here is NUTS!! 😱🤬I'm going to share this s… |
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Post #ArW1Gy1MpwhZokPhHU by [email protected] |
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The lecture was called "With Great Power Came No Responsibility: How Enshi… |
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Post #ArW1GyE84UuUSKNtAm by [email protected] |
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This speech specifically addresses the unique opportunities for disenshittifica… |
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Post #ArW1KH4eSG8VmIWiMS by [email protected] |
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As Trump burns these trade deals to the ground, the rest of the world has an un… |
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Post #ArW1KHFdnOvWKNfUUS by [email protected] |
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I was hosted for the day by the Centre for Culture and Technology, which was fo… |
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Post #ArW1KHRh4aZGvlJ7HE by [email protected] |
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But with all respect due to Anne and her dad, Ursula Franklin is the thinking p… |
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Post #ArW1Pnqg1jlKsHcthQ by [email protected] |
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I know tonight’s talk is supposed to be about decaying tech platforms, but I … |
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Post #ArW1Po1fMsYLQMlfpQ by [email protected] |
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There's something high-tech going on here with those nurses' wages. The… |
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Post #ArW1PoBEnID1u3FJkO by [email protected] |
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The more desperate the nurse's financial straits are, the lower the wage on… |
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Post #ArW1PoLWB4QsPw3Wls by [email protected] |
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When I first started writing about this, I focused on the external symptology o… |
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Post #ArW1PoVRaAN8uihSF6 by [email protected] |
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So no matter what browser you used, what mobile OS you used, what carrier you h… |
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Post #ArW1PogQvJA9SnqEN6 by [email protected] |
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Stage two is when the platform starts to abuse end users to tempt in and enrich… |
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Post #ArW1Por4HlfZzmoiwq by [email protected] |
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But those business customers *also* get locked into the platform, dependent on … |
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Post #ArW1Pp23cuSaXrxV4q by [email protected] |
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So now you have Google acting as a monopolist to its users (stage one), nd a mo… |
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Post #ArW1PpCgzMy14qvzea by [email protected] |
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More than 90% of us used Google for search, and we searched for *everything*. A… |
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Post #ArW1RDjdGePpRv0Vw8 by [email protected] |
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They made search *worse*. They reduced the system's accuracy it so you had … |
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Post #ArW1SEvWK2MHR23OiG by [email protected] |
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And that's how we get to the enshittified Google of today, where every quer… |
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Post #ArWA7AFNQQz0QYMnpo by [email protected] |
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@syntaxseed I had to read a some pages before I could believe that. My European… |
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Post #ArWAO8E0CGxn4voYkK by [email protected] |
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@syntaxseed @pluralistic lots of pricing and wage systems do this. How do you … |
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Post #ArWFNgp8ZaDbrmnD96 by [email protected] |
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Then it makes things worse for end users, to make things better for business cu… |
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Post #ArWFNgzlw2j2Ollhiq by [email protected] |
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What is the *technical* mechanism for enshittification? I call it *twiddling*. … |
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Post #ArWFNhAlHBW2wquTqq by [email protected] |
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Which takes me back to our nurses. This scam, where you look up the nurse's… |
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Post #ArWFNhL2exjtSjigsK by [email protected] |
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Digitalization - weaving networked computers through a firm or a sector - enabl… |
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Post #ArWFNhVg1QFJzihBS4 by [email protected] |
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The legal scholar Veena Dubal coined a term to describe the twiddling that supp… |
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Post #ArWFNhgfMZ2KXnpxa4 by [email protected] |
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Uber invented this trick. Drivers who are picky about the jobs the app puts in … |
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Post #ArWFNhrehhpL5syji4 by [email protected] |
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Not so much boiling the frog as poaching it, until the Uber driver has gone int… |
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Post #ArWFNi3M0DBVgAS4wa by [email protected] |
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No 19th century warehouse full of guys with green eyeshades slaving over ledger… |
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Post #ArWFNiEhK2G6FLl8cq by [email protected] |
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Do we really think that paying nurses based on how desperate they are, at a rat… |
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Post #ArWFNiPgfB36nQtukq by [email protected] |
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This is why it’s so foolish to say "If you're not paying for the pro… |
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Post #ArWFNiZy2xGxJJi7mK by [email protected] |
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In this formulation, we are complicit in our own exploitation. By choosing to u… |
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Post #ArWFNikbPPmNqIgcM4 by [email protected] |
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The moral is that if we only went back to paying for things, instead of unreali… |
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Post #ArWFNiuWoVieL5KXpI by [email protected] |
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Because Apple charges us money, rather than attention, it can focus on giving u… |
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Post #ArWFNj46EvNKoloBkG by [email protected] |
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96% of Apple customers ticked that box. The other 4% were, presumably drunk, or… |
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Post #ArWFNjE1e1JbJYS7DU by [email protected] |
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But *simultaneously* with this privacy measure, Apple was secretly turning on … |
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Post #ArWFNjNb4QyHnEvl8S by [email protected] |
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It *didn’t even tell them* about it, and when it was caught, Apple *lied* abo… |
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Post #ArWFNjXAUqcyGvPP3Q by [email protected] |
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Apple treats its business customers - app vendors - like the product, screwing … |
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Post #ArWFNjh5twZEli3KWe by [email protected] |
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This is what's going on with our gig-app nurses: the nurses are the product… |
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Post #ArWFNjr1J2VVGUhFzs by [email protected] |
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The nurses are the product, and they're being twiddled, because they've… |
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Post #ArWFNk1IgojLmNVT1M by [email protected] |
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You could Ask Jeeves questions for a million years, you could load up Altavista… |
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Post #ArWFNkBw3HEmJMTxb6 by [email protected] |
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All of these services were born digital. They could have enshittified at any ti… |
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Post #ArWFNkMvOQ1mrRcjj6 by [email protected] |
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I like that very much, it's a very science fictional way of thinking about … |
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Post #ArWFNkWqnVy3MEGfCK by [email protected] |
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They're the difference between a system that warns you when you're abou… |
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Post #ArWFNkhU9yTTtDF9m4 by [email protected] |
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They’re the difference between an app that remembers where you parked your ca… |
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Post #ArWFNkr3aO8AMtinh2 by [email protected] |
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These are changes to the rules of the game, undertaken in living memory, by nam… |
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Post #ArWFNl0d0nmqqaCRc0 by [email protected] |
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In other words: I think we created a crimogenic environment, a perfect breeding… |
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Post #ArWFNlAYPtj7LMqN5E by [email protected] |
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And I think there's good news there, because if enshittification isn't … |
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Post #ArWFNlKpnfwxrFea6i by [email protected] |
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I'm not going to talk about AI today, because oh my god is AI a boring, ove… |
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Post #ArWFNlVp8ojyPKnMEi by [email protected] |
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To maximize profits, you charge as much as you can, you pay your workers and su… |
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Post #ArWFNlgoTxWyxPw8Mi by [email protected] |
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But that corporation wouldn't make any money, for the obvious reasons that … |
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Post #ArWFNlr5rjkpTIkLOC by [email protected] |
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In tech, we have four of constraints, anti-enshittificatory sources of discipli… |
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Post #ArWFNm0fI9PVwzDzJA by [email protected] |
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This is the bedrock of capitalist theory, and it's the ideological basis fo… |
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Post #ArWFNmAwfvdMSs2CKe by [email protected] |
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> If we would not submit to an emperor we should not submit to an autocrat … |
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Post #ArWFNmLw14QN0xAySe by [email protected] |
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Lacking competitors, they were too big to fail, too big to jail, and too big to… |
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Post #ArWFNmWZNWvnXw9T2O by [email protected] |
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They threw out John Sherman's idea that we need to keep companies competiti… |
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The only reason a better search engine hasn't stepped in is that Google is … |
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Post #ArWFNmsY3oVoe6R1IO by [email protected] |
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Now, you'll be glad to hear that this isn't what happened to Canada. Th… |
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Post #ArWFNn3BQH1FB5PVs8 by [email protected] |
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In its *entire history*, the Competition Bureau has challenged *3* mergers, and… |
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Post #ArWFNnDSo3F5gyDitc by [email protected] |
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But 40 years ago, the rest of the world adopted the Chicago School's pro-mo… |
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Post #ArWFqWK6gznNhK1g12 by [email protected] |
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The economists who conceived of these policies are still around today, polishin… |
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It's like we used to put down rat poison and we didn't have a rat probl… |
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Post #ArWFqWivCje2wHdUh6 by [email protected] |
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And if they bought the rat poison factories and shut them all down, well, so wh… |
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Which is why Mark Zuckerberg bought Instagram for a billion dollars, even thoug… |
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Post #ArWGKIUChejVTCwo2i by [email protected] |
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Despite the fact that Zuckerberg put this confession in writing, the Obama admi… |
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👉 Do you want to your catheter inserted by a nurse on food stamps, who drove… |
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Post #ArWZuPo6rKk9jKC6MK by [email protected] |
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@datum @pluralistic Jesus... That's bleak. That company deserves death by f… |
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Post #ArWfWPDbznd8gB3byC by [email protected] |
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@BritishTechGuru yes, I've done the gap/short shift in minimum wage/food se… |
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Post #ArXiNFwraQlsLJVnuK by [email protected] |
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@pluralistic Contrary to what some Americans say, the regulations are among the… |
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@Starkimarm @pluralistic in my view, Europe is over-regulated on the start up f… |
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Post #ArXk9WDYV7xGeftf04 by [email protected] |
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@[email protected] @[email protected] Which is funny, because they already can… |
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Post #ArXk9WL03RuT1lNbbU by [email protected] |
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@ferricoxide And at this very moment, local hospitals are desperately short of … |
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Post #ArXk9WSRblrfOqrYCu by [email protected] |
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@datum @ferricoxide @pluralistic Good on ya. As a GenX person who spent… |
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Post #ArXosCNvU8HnzcJASe by [email protected] |
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@syntaxseed @pluralistic I imagine this is probably illegal in the U.S., much o… |
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Post #ArXosCXUuXwUTImoNc by [email protected] |
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@BoydStephenSmithJr @syntaxseed @pluralistic @WorkingFamilies The NLRB under Bi… |
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Post #ArYCwpOOnN5z1zGlt2 by [email protected] |
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@noplasticshower @Starkimarm @pluralistic just like how green pledges stifle oi… |
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@piyuv @Starkimarm @pluralistic nope. Not like that at all. |
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Post #ArYDBJ2pLXPr385Dw8 by [email protected] |
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@noplasticshower @Starkimarm @pluralistic Given the MO of quite a few startups … |
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Post #ArYDBJC2nGmxViOaIq by [email protected] |
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@Beelbeebub @Starkimarm @pluralistic your argument by exaggeration is unconvinc… |
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@syntaxseed @pluralistic why is it even legal for a random company to "buy… |
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Post #AreaJNVA7fzx5EukV6 by [email protected] |
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@syntaxseed @[email protected] Brutal, predatory business tactics. In other … |
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@syntaxseed @pluralistic Slavery has many faces. |
