Look Out, Big Tech, We’re Coming for You

Re:Look Out, Big Tech, We’re Coming for You by ekianjo on Sunday December 12, 2021 @10:50AM (#29530549)

> Like all top-heavy systems, this one can’t last. We should—and soon will—have thousands of DuckDuckGos, all innovating in ways that improve the user experience, competing with each other to improve quality and to serve different sectors of the population that might want different things.

LOL. And then the natural consequence of such competition is consolidation after a few years. Has the author ever watching business cycles once in their life?

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Re:Look Out, Big Tech, We’re Coming for You by runes on Sunday December 12, 2021 @04:25PM (#29533771)

Policy frames business cycles, there is nothing "natural" about it.

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Re:Look Out, Big Tech, We’re Coming for You by ekianjo on Monday December 13, 2021 @07:26AM (#29538950)

Of course it's natural. The fact that hierarchies exist among all animal species is not the fruit of randomness. It is precisely how power concentrates over time, and the same thing occurs in all human endeavors, including corporations.

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