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Absolute banger of a post by @mariafarrell, shared by @tarakiyee on another network. Every other paragraph is quote-worthy.
"That impulse to scour away the messiness that makes life resilient is what many conservation biologists call the pathology of command and control. Today, the same drive to centralize, control and extract has driven the internet to the same fate as the ravaged forests."
Regarding the last boost: Google has been found to be an illegal monopoly multiple times, and so far no judge has had the courage to impose a significant enough penalty that Google actually changes its ways. Its monopoly behavior is frequent, obvious, and damaging.
Anyway, check your Google Drive, if you use that: go to drive, then click the gear. Choose Settings -> Manage Apps, and make sue "Use by default" is checked OFF on everything you don't like, especially Gemini (Google's AI that they're pushing on everyone). This was added and turned on by default for most people, it seems.
#Google #Gemini #DarkPattern #monopoly #AI #GenAI #tying #antitrust #DefaultToOptOut
Regarding the last boost: Google has been found to be an illegal monopoly multiple times, and so far no judge has had the courage to impose a significant enough penalty that Google actually changes its ways. Its monopoly behavior is frequent, obvious, and damaging.
Anyway, check your Google Drive, if you use that: go to drive, then click the gear. Choose Settings -> Manage Apps, and make sue "Use by default" is checked OFF on everything you don't like, especially Gemini (Google's AI that they're pushing on everyone). This was added and turned on by default for most people, it seems.
#Google #Gemini #DarkPattern #monopoly #AI #GenAI #tying #antitrust #DefaultToOptOut
💰 Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2 billion - 9to5Mac
｢ developers were overcharged by the difference between a 17.5% commission for app purchases and the commission Apple charged, which Kent’s lawyers said was usually 30%. The CAT also ruled that app developers passed on 50% of the overcharge to consumers ｣
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion/
💰 Apple loses UK App Store monopoly case, penalty might near $2 billion - 9to5Mac
｢ developers were overcharged by the difference between a 17.5% commission for app purchases and the commission Apple charged, which Kent’s lawyers said was usually 30%. The CAT also ruled that app developers passed on 50% of the overcharge to consumers ｣
https://9to5mac.com/2025/10/23/apple-loses-uk-app-store-monopoly-case-penalty-might-near-2-billion/
Batman is up to sale, again.
#Monopoly power isn't a goal...it's an anti-goal. This is why you should be following @matthewstoller and @pluralistic on all platforms.
#Monopoly power isn't a goal...it's an anti-goal. This is why you should be following @matthewstoller and @pluralistic on all platforms.
The idea that we have allowed a single, private entity to own ABC, Disney, Hulu, Pixar, Marvel, Lucasfilm, 20th Century Studios, National Geographic, FX, The Muppets, and ESPN is a serious problem. These enormous companies will always be a crisis. Break them up.
Google gets told to go to its room with no screentime tonight not even Minecraft, in major ruling that should have actually achieved something but didn't.
Google gets told to go to its room with no screentime tonight not even Minecraft, in major ruling that should have actually achieved something but didn't.
Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?
Monopoly monopsony...
#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android
Google will require developer verification to install Android apps: https://9to5google.com/2025/08/25/android-apps-developer-verification/
This is exactly why Google can't be trusted... banning sideloading for the benefit of 'user safety'? Have they learned nothing from Apple and why power users want to sideload apps?
Monopoly monopsony...
#google #sideloading #enshittification @pluralistic #monopoly#android
"Like all the best Americans, I'm a Canadian."
@pluralistic#Enshittification#Copyright#RightToRepair#Monopoly#BuildANewInternet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bpo
"Like all the best Americans, I'm a Canadian."
@pluralistic#Enshittification#Copyright#RightToRepair#Monopoly#BuildANewInternet
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Ai-fC-2Bpo
Almost 10 years ago, I wrote an article about consolidation in movies, and the vertical integration perils of movie studios owning the movie distribution channels.
4 years ago, I republished it, because the trend continued.
Now, the trend keeps going. Not great for the industry or the audience.
https://stuff.davidaugust.com/whats-old-is-new-again-antitrust/
#movies #tv #film #television #consolidation #monopoly #antitrust
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