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 .p09 majors: 5 publishers, four studios, three labels, two app companies, one ebook/audiobook company
 .p11 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Facebook | Facebook ]] beginnings: nonconsensual sex ratings ''(citation needed)'' of Harvard undergrads
 .p12 2006: comparison to [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myspace | MySpace ]] "owned by Rupert Murdoch, and he spies on you"
 .p12 2006: "Come to Facebook, where we will ''never'' spy on you.
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 .p19 2022 less than expected growth, $250B stock selloff (current market cap $1592B )
 .p20 Amazon original name [[ https://www.businessinsider.com/amazon-was-almost-named-relentless-2014-2 | relentless ]]
 .p21 all audiobooks, movies, most ebooks permanently locked to Amazon with [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Digital_rights_management | DRM ]]
 .p22 Amazon [[ https://feedvisor.com/resources/amazon-trends/amazon-flywheel-explained/ | flywheel ]]
 .p23 Jimmy Carter against antitrust?
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 .p25 Amazon merchant fee is 45% to 51%
 .p25 merchants required to raise prices everywhere, even in their own direct-sale stores
 .p25 The first Amazon links are 25% higher than the best match
 .p26 merchants pay Amazon $38B/y for placement, aren't the best matches for customers
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 .p		  .p26 Amazon search by price also manipulated
 .p27 top scoring items are paid reviews
  . suggested alternatives, Cory?
 .p29 Case Study: [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IPhone | iPhone ]]
 .p29 walled garden, only runs Amazon apps
 .p30 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Android_(operating_system) | Android ]] more open, users can install third party "insecure?" apps
 .p33 Apple 2021 "one-click opt-out" from app-based surveillance, 96% of owners chose it
 .p34 Apple choked off other company apps, continued to surveil their own apps
 .p34 Apple doubled third party app processing fee to 30%
 .p34 footnote . [[ https://www.nber.org/papers/w29788 | Ideas Have Consequences ]] Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen & Suresh Naidu, 2022
 .p35 wholesale discount for audiobooks is only 20%, other vendors paying 30% to Apple leave the App store
 .p36 Uber and Lyft exempt from fees
 .p37 Case Study: Twitter
 .p37 Twitter was an API
 .p37 [[ https://www.ietf.org/ | IETF ]] standard for calendar [[ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5545 | invites ]]
 .p39 RT = retweet, #QT quote tweeting
 .p40 2022 Elon Musk pays $44B for Twitter, $22.4B borrowed
 .p42 Musk shed most of moderation team
 .p42 Musk tells [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bob_Iger | Disney CEO Bob Iger ]] "Fuck you" and "Go fuck yourself".
 .p44 [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twitter_verification | Blue ticks ]]
 .p44 2011 Doctorow impersonated, blue check mark required fax of ID
  . "I couldn't send them a fax because my time machine was broken"
  . Bullshit, there are MANY places to send faxes in London, copy shops and FedEx and individuals like me with fax cards in their Linux PCs. Modern fax machines are interoperable everywhere; before 2011 I was sending and receiving faxes with companies and colleagues in Japan.
 .p46 Musk suspended account for users listing accounts on rivals like [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mastodon_(social_network) | Mastodon ]], [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bluesky | Bluesky ]], and [[ https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Threads_(social_network) | Threads ]].

Enshittification

Why Everything Suddenly Got Worse and What to Do About It

  • Cory Doctorow 2025 . 338p . no index . no references beyond

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  • p08 footnote ."Chokepoint Capitalism" 2022, Cory Doctorow and Rebecca Giblin
  • p09 five or fewer firms, like shipping and finance
  • p09 majors: 5 publishers, four studios, three labels, two app companies, one ebook/audiobook company

  • p11 Facebook beginnings: nonconsensual sex ratings (citation needed) of Harvard undergrads

  • p12 2006: comparison to MySpace "owned by Rupert Murdoch, and he spies on you"

  • p12 2006: "Come to Facebook, where we will never spy on you.

  • p12 footnote . Dina Srinivasan, "The Antitrust Case Against Facebook: A Monopolists's Journey Towards Pervasive Surveillance in Spite of Consumer Preference for Privacy" Berkeley Business Law Journal 16, no. 1 (2019)

  • p13 Facebook network effect, more useful if big, but higher switching costs

  • p14 collective action problem

  • p15 stories about lies to users and advertisers and publishers

  • p16 footnote . Lauren Johnson, "When Procter & Gamble Cut $200M in Digital Ad Spend, It Increased It's Reach 10%" Adweek, March 1, 2018

  • p17 brittle equilibrium, one effective whistleblower and users leave, faster and faster
  • p19 2022 less than expected growth, $250B stock selloff (current market cap $1592B )

  • p20 Amazon original name relentless

  • p21 all audiobooks, movies, most ebooks permanently locked to Amazon with DRM

  • p22 Amazon flywheel

  • p23 Jimmy Carter against antitrust?

  • p24 footnote . Matt Stoller, The FTC Sues to Break Up Amazon over an Economy-Wide 'Hidden Tax'

  • p24 Amazon bypasses original merchants, pushes them to the last search results
  • p25 Amazon merchant fee is 45% to 51%
  • p25 merchants required to raise prices everywhere, even in their own direct-sale stores
  • p25 The first Amazon links are 25% higher than the best match
  • p26 merchants pay Amazon $38B/y for placement, aren't the best matches for customers

  • p26 footnote . Rory Van Loo and Nikita Aggarwal, "Amazon's Pricing Paradox," Harvard Journal of Law & Technology 37, no 1 (Fall 2023)

  • p26 Amazon search by price also manipulated
  • p27 top scoring items are paid reviews
    • suggested alternatives, Cory?

  • p29 Case Study: iPhone

  • p29 walled garden, only runs Amazon apps

  • p30 Android more open, users can install third party "insecure?" apps

  • p33 Apple 2021 "one-click opt-out" from app-based surveillance, 96% of owners chose it
  • p34 Apple choked off other company apps, continued to surveil their own apps
  • p34 Apple doubled third party app processing fee to 30%

  • p34 footnote . Ideas Have Consequences Elliott Ash, Daniel L. Chen & Suresh Naidu, 2022

  • p35 wholesale discount for audiobooks is only 20%, other vendors paying 30% to Apple leave the App store
  • p36 Uber and Lyft exempt from fees
  • p37 Case Study: Twitter
  • p37 Twitter was an API

  • p37 IETF standard for calendar invites

  • p39 RT = retweet, #QT quote tweeting
  • p40 2022 Elon Musk pays $44B for Twitter, $22.4B borrowed
  • p42 Musk shed most of moderation team

  • p42 Musk tells Disney CEO Bob Iger "Fuck you" and "Go fuck yourself".

  • p44 Blue ticks

  • p44 2011 Doctorow impersonated, blue check mark required fax of ID
    • "I couldn't send them a fax because my time machine was broken"

    • Bullshit, there are MANY places to send faxes in London, copy shops and FedEx and individuals like me with fax cards in their Linux PCs. Modern fax machines are interoperable everywhere; before 2011 I was sending and receiving faxes with companies and colleagues in Japan.

  • p46 Musk suspended account for users listing accounts on rivals like Mastodon, Bluesky, and Threads.

  • p62 footnote . Doctorow, The Internet Con: How to Seize the Means of Computation 2024 paperback

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  • p87 footnote . Tim Wu, "Tech Dominance and the Policeman at the Elbow" Columbia Law School Scholarship Archive 2020

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  • p115 Uber algorithm offers different wages to different drivers
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  • p117 Canadian National Exposition CNE 18 days

  • p117 Canadian Labour Day

  • p118 5 balls tossed in basket earns HUGE teddy bear
    • carnie "discounts" for mark who carries bear around fair all day - cheap advertising for carnie.

  • p119 Uber rewards a few drivers who are prolific on social media, the rest enticed for >sub-starvation wages<

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  • p132 footnote . How to Destroy Surveillance Capitalism 2020

  • p133 footnote . Polish Cipher Bureau

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  • p162 footnote . every single Social Security number ever issue on the darknet
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  • p178 footnote . State of Texas et al. v. Google LLC

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  • p288 footnote . Doctorow novel Little Brother

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  • p310 footnote . [[ From Businesses and Banks to Colleges and Churches: Americans' Views of U.S. Institutions," Pew Research Center, February 2024
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