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Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >

https://vimeo.com/1059798497

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2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture: Cory Doctorow

Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow presents the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture.

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Xamanismo ColetivoFeb 27, 2025

#Disenshittify, NOW!! We have a chance: #IP!!

"…thanks to internal memos published during last year's #monopoly trial against #Google, we know what they did. They made #search worse. They reduced the system's accuracy it so you had to search twice or more to get to the answer, thus doubling the number of queries, and doubling the number of #ads.

Meanwhile, Google entered into a secret, illegal collusive arrangement with #Facebook, codenamed #JediBlue, to rig the ad market, fixing prices so advertisers paid more and publishers got less." @pluralistic
#adtech
https://pluralistic.net/2025/02/26/ursula-franklin/

Pluralistic: With Great Power Came No Responsibility (26 Feb 2025) – Pluralistic: Daily links from Cory Doctorow

DsensJan 1, 2025

#Google #Facebook #JediBlue #AbusDePositionDominante

Un contrat de collusion nommé « Jedi Blue » (entre Google et Facebook) est enfin rendu public : il inclut explicitement une clause de résiliation si jamais « la justice prenait connaissance du contrat ».

Effectivement Bruxelles l'a appris et enquête

(Dans un monde normal, signer un tel contrat qu'on sait illégal enverrait les personnes impliquées en prison.)

ocdtrekkieJan 1, 2025

So Google and Facebook's "Jedi Blue" collusion contract is finally public, and they actually explicitly included a termination clause for "the law found out about the contract".

When you create a contract that you explicitly know is illegal and has to have such a clause, everyone involved needs to go to prison. #Google #Facebook #JediBlue #Antitrust

PUPUWEB BlogSep 14, 2024
⚖️ In the Google ad trial, a former Facebook ad executive testified that the company signed the 2018 Jedi Blue deal with Google due to its inability to compete with Google's "monopoly" in digital advertising. A critical moment in the antitrust case. 🏛️ #Antitrust #Google #Facebook #JediBlue #TechNews
Show threadCory DoctorowOct 3, 2023

Some of those rackets are well-known, like #JediBlue, the market-rigging conspiracy that Google and Facebook colluded on:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue

But thanks to the antitrust trial, we're learning about more of these. #MeganGray - ex-#FTC, ex-#DuckDuckGo - was in the courtroom last week when evidence was presented on Google execs' panic over a decline in "ad generating searches" and the sleazy gimmick they came up with to address it.

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Jedi Blue - Wikipedia

Show threadCory DoctorowApr 8, 2023

Facebook and Google illegally colluded to rig the ad-market with a program called #JediBlue that let the companies steal from both advertisers and media companies:

https://techcrunch.com/2022/03/11/google-meta-jedi-blue-eu-uk-antitrust-probes/

Apple blocked Facebook's surveillance on its mobile devices, but increased its own surveillance of #Iphone and #Ipad users in order to target ads to them, even when those users explicitly opted out of spying:

https://pluralistic.net/2022/11/14/luxury-surveillance/#liar-liar

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Show threadCory DoctorowJan 21, 2023

It gave those advertisers a great deal, charging a pittance to target ads based on the dossiers of nonconsensually harvested personal data they'd stolen from you.

Sellers became dependent on Facebook, too, unable to carry on business without access to those targeted pitches. That was Facebook's cue to jack up ad prices, stop worrying so much about ad fraud, and to collude with Google to rig the ad market through an illegal program called #JediBlue:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jedi_Blue

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Jedi Blue - Wikipedia

DigitalcourageMar 22, 2022

Wer verstehen möchte, warum #Google in #Texas vor Gericht steht, kann entweder diesen Twitter-Thread lesen …
https://twitter.com/jason_kint/status/1506273858692784130
… oder die Lobrede von Rena Tangens bei den #bba2021 anschauen …
https://digitalcourage.video/w/mevicfUCc9Cpq8W4Y68qH9?start=1h19m55s
… oder durchlesen …
https://bigbrotherawards.de/2021/was-mich-wirklich-wuetend-macht-google

#JediBlue #ProjectBernanke #DarkPatterns /c

Jason Kint on Twitter

“oomph... this line on p30 of the 15 state AGs response to Google in their texas-led antitrust lawsuit which just posted. (narrator) they're talking about the agreement with code name, "Jedi Blue" signed by the most senior executives at Google and Facebook. thread incoming. /1”

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MailoOct 25, 2021
Dans les indiscrets de Petit Web cette semaine, un résumé de #JediBlue, l'accord secret et illégal entre #Facebook et #Google. Effarant. https://www.petitweb.fr/indiscrets/les-indiscrets-du-25-octobre-2021/
Les indiscrets du 25 octobre 2021 - Petit Web

--> Décidément, l'affaire Jedi Blue est digne de Scarface. L'accord secret entre Facebook et Google était très très bien gardé, comme l'explique ce thread du compte faster than lime sur Twitter. L'auteur a lu les 173 pages de l'instruction anti trust. Il résume : Google a un deal secret avec Facebook appelé Jedi Blue dont ils savaient qu’il […]