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Ecologia Digital#TimWu: "Tuesday’s ruling is clearly wrong on the merits. The government charged that #Meta, then called Facebook, broke the law when it bought up its competitors Instagram and WhatsApp in 2012 and 2014. Judge #Boasberg threw out the case by concluding that Meta lacks #monopolypower now, when the relevant question should have been whether it had monopoly power at the time."
tanya tussing😳 I just read Chapter 10 of The #ageofextraction . OMG, #TimWu discusses how #platforms fueled outrageous strategies in #healthcare and #housing . In both industries, these strategies led to big price jumps with either no quality improvement or significant quality degradation.
Great convo about an important new book, The #AgeofExtraction by #TimWu .
#TechPlatforms have become modern town squares -- places to buy/sell products and exchange ideas. How has their privatization & exploitation of us affected our #society & #politics? How does #AI fit it? What can the rest of us do to take back some economic and political power?
@dbcurren.bsky.social a lot of it went to a variety of monopolistic “platforms”. Great new book by #TimWu - https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/books/691177/the-age-of-extraction-by-tim-wu/ - about our age of extraction.
PoLiTiPeT#TimWu (2018) – La commodité [de confort] est la force la plus sous-estimée et la moins comprise dans le monde d’aujourd’hui. En tant que moteur des décisions humaines, elle n’offre pas le frisson coupable des désirs sexuels inconscients, ni l’élégance mathématique des incitations de l’économiste. La commodité est ennuyeuse. [Pourtant], dans les pays développés du XXIe siècle, la commodité semble être la force la plus puissante qui façonne nos vies et nos économies.
*La tyrannie de la commodité (par Tim_Wu)* Traduction d'un…
texte essentiel sur la notion de commodité, de confort, publié en 2018 par le juriste américain Tim Wu dans le New York Times[1]. Les organisations (institutions étatiques, think tanks, ONG, associations, etc.) et influenceurs de la mouvance (...)
Xamanismo Coletivo#TimWu: "…more important than #thedeal itself is the approach. It hints at a new era in economic policy for the United States that is centered on a paramount leader (Mr. #Trump) actively picking winners and losers. To be sure, the federal government, usually by way of Congress, has previously practiced #industrialpolicy. But the #centralization of policy in the president would be something different: more like a command economy, which in the United States might be called #commandcapitalism."
Yannick DelbecqueTim Wu : La tyrannie de la commodité (traduction française)
https://greenwashingeconomy.com/tyrannie-commodite-par-tim-wu/
La tyrannie de la commodité (par Tim Wu) - Greenwashing Economy
Traduction d’un texte essentiel sur la notion de commodité, de confort, publié en 2018 par le juriste américain Tim Wu dans le New York Times[1]. Les organisations (institutions étatiques, think tanks, ONG, associations, etc.) et influenceurs de la mouvance éco-capitaliste ne remettent aucunement en question le confort moderne. Le pouvoir ne remettra évidemment jamais en […]
bojkotiMalbonaPlz @superwuster, write an essay about how centralized technology in fiefdoms is dumbing down the population of convenience zombies. Make it an extension of your #TyrannyOfConvenience essay. Knowledge empowers. When people flock to a flagship (#FB, #LinkedIn, #Signal, #LemmyWorld, mastodon.social, etc) they choose the disempowerment that results from avoiding knowledge.
People /should/ grapple with things like #PGP key exchanges.
People who know enough to avoid the major tech giants still fuck this up by choosing the easy path (Signal, Lemmy.world, etc). Then they hypocritically tout the importance of #decentralization from their centralised Cloudflare platforms, effectively setting a poor example for the basic ideas ppl should hold in high esteem.
Even *in universities* students are clinging on to /easy/ tech. Google docs, facebook, MS Word (not LaTeX). The new culture of knowledge avoidance is a big component of the Tyranny of Convenience. We need a #TimWu essay to cover this -- to reach your massive influence of 28 followers (wtf?).
Should such an essay be written?
yes, by Tim Wu
yes, but not by Tim Wu
no
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Steve Randy Waldman“When Boeing and McDonnell Douglas sought to merge in 1996, the Clinton White House pushed for the approval of what was a clearly anti-competitive merger apparently based on the belief that the United States needed a company large enough to compete effectively with Europe’s Airbus. At the risk of stating the obvious, Boeing has not benefited from those indulgences.” #TimWu https://www.nytimes.com/2024/08/13/opinion/google-antitrust-remedy.html
