"My main takeaway is the internet and the open web as we know it are fragile. And these companies that we take for granted, and we think of as somewhat infallible, are for sale to the highest bidder. And when that happens, which we saw so clearly with Elon, there's very little a board or the employees, and certainly not the users, can do to stop it."
#ZoëSchiffer, 2024
It's hard to fathom that this was such a surprise to so many people in 2022, but it was.
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Who killed Twitter?
Was it Jack Dorsey or Elon Musk? Kurt Wagner and Zoë Schiffer, authors of two new books on the subject, interview each other about what they learnedZoë Schiffer (Platformer)
Strypey
in reply to Strypey • • •Douglas @Rushkoff's 'Throwing Rocks' book was published in 2016. As was 'Ours to Hack and to Own', a book of essays on exactly this edited by Nathan Schneider (@ntnsndr) and Trebor Scholz;
https://www.opendemocracy.net/en/ours-to-hack-and-own/
Followed by Zeynep Tufekci's 'Twitter and Teargas' in 2017, and in 2018, 'The Age of Surveillance Capitalism' by Shoshana Zuboff.
I guess I can understand average netizens being unaware of this in 2022. But if the tech press read they have no excuse for being caught napping.
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Nathan Schneider
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