how many thousands of people are watching #eurovision on tv screens IN A STADIUM?!?
36,000 PEOPLE IN A SING-ALONG?
USA arena, club, theater and music #monopoly and #monopsonies have created a false scarcity for live acts. ICP & Grateful Dead had to create theirs.
that’s why most USA acts have to go to Europe and South America to make most of their money. cuz the USA mediamafia steals sales, streaming & broadcasting residuals even from megastars like Taylor Swift & Rihanna.
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow @pluralistic speech at the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture. >
#enshitification #monopsonies #twiddling #locked_users #locked_sellers #gafam #lecture #algorithmic_wage_discrimination
#speech #surveillance_capitalism #interoperability #competition #regulation #workers_power #big_data #sellers #users #techno_feudalism #employment #ratings #uberisation #queries #jediblue #profiling #enshitified #internet #abuse #data_brokers #antitrust_law #tech_layoffs #regulatory_captures #technological_abuse #privacy #value #giant_pile_of_shit #technical_mechanism #rankings #unions #digitalisation #nursing #speech #lecture #video #coporatocracy #monopoly
Science fiction novelist, journalist and technology activist Cory Doctorow presents the 2025 Ursula Franklin Lecture.
so it's now TWO #BOEING #WHISTLEBLOWERS who have been found dead within months of going public, right?!?!
so, are we clear now why i call #billionaires and their corporate oligarchies, #MAFIAS? am not being dramatic.
there is no other way to describe companies like Apple, Google and their intentionally carved out #monopsonies as #cartels; or mafias when there are mass killings involved like Merck with Oxycontin, or targeted deaths like Boeing and their whistleblowers.
capitalism kills.
The power of #monopsonies over creative industries - @[email protected]
Every time you download a song, buy a book online or watch a favorite show on a streaming service, the artist who created that content has to share their paycheck with the big tech companies who deliver it. You've heard about monopolies, where sellers hold power over buyers. Now mammoth online retailers and digital entertainment services are creating monopsonies, where the buyers hold power over sellers. And this is killing creative industries say author Cory Doctorow and law professor Rebecca Giblin. They offer creative ways for consumers to help the artists we love get a fair share for their work. Their new book is called "Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We'll Win Them Back."
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