Cory Doctorow

But actually, I'm going to transform you and everyone you love into a legless, sexless, low-polygon, heavily surveilled cartoon character so that I can imprison you in a virtual world I stole from a 25-year-old comedic, dystopian, cyberpunk novel that I call the Metaverse.

And that's the final stage.

That's the giant pile of shit.

All right.

The world is crying out for a middle-aged technology critic rapper.

10% of their ad revenue is ads for scams by their own internal accounting.

So let me say that I don't think competition is a good unto itself.

And I think it is absolutely possible to compete to become the world's most efficient human rights violator.

The reason I like competition is because it makes firms into a rabble instead of a cartel.

So in 2022, two teenagers...

Reverse-engineered Instagram.

And they made an app called OG App.

And the way OG App worked is you gave it your login and password.

It pretended to be you and logged into Instagram.

It grabbed the session key.

It grabbed everything in your Instagram feed.

It discarded the ads.

It discarded the suggestions.

It discarded all of the stuff that wasn't a chronological feed of the people you followed that they posted recently.

Facebook or Meta sent a letter to Apple and Google who obliged them by removing the app because there's honor among thieves.