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I worry the enshitification of a monopoly like Google, who now has it's hands deep in the workings of things like the web and email, means their supposed missio
by atomicfiredoll 3y ago
I worry the enshitification of a monopoly like Google, who now has it's hands deep in the workings of things like the web and email, means their supposed mission of "organizing the world's information" has devolved into "putting as many paid middlemen in front of the world's information as possible," or walling parts of that information off completely.
This goes without saying, but we shouldn't let one company be solely responsible for managing the "world's" information. "Organizing" sounds benign, but they've clearly extended past that.
I don't know that you're totally on point about how to break Alphabet up, but you're right that it should be. If information wants to be free, we should also re-examine how to ensure it stays that way in a world where Google isn't it's supposed shepherd.