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The digital sharecropper analogy is less about the monopoly position of platforms but about the content creator and platform relationship. More platforms wouldn
by smadge 4y ago
The digital sharecropper analogy is less about the monopoly position of platforms but about the content creator and platform relationship. More platforms wouldn’t change that relationship.
- lotsofpulp 4y agoThe platform owner can change the relationship, for example if it’s is publicly owned. The point is is no one else in the world wants to make the enormous investment required to create a YouTube, so why should they get to make the rules? It is not technically hard to make a YouTube alternative, just expensive.