Cory Doctorow

Because if you have the breast cancer gene, you are deciding whether to have your breasts removed, your ovaries removed, the women in your life, your daughters, your sisters, your mothers, they're dying or sick, and you're making care decisions.

This group is hugely important.

And Andrea discovered that you could enumerate the full membership of any Facebook group, whether or not you were a member of it.

This is hugely important to her friends there.

She reported it to Facebook.

Facebook said, that's a feature, not a bug.

We're going to keep it.

They sued.

It was non-consensually settled when the FTC settled all the privacy claims.

And they are still there because they cannot...

overcome the collective action problem that it takes to leave.

Now, they will eventually.

When Facebook is terrible enough, that community will shatter and maybe it will never reform.

That is not a good outcome.

I do remember that, actually.

So that is broadly part of this thing Tim was discussing, where they're piling on junk fees for the right to be at the top of the results.

Sometimes it's more subtle where if you're not paying for Prime and paying for fulfillment by Amazon and paying for all these other things, you aren't eligible.

And the more of these you buy, the greater chance you have of being chosen.

So you're right that it is algorithmic, but the algorithmic inputs are not grounded primarily in things like quality or customer satisfaction.

They're grounded in how many different ways you've made your business dependent on Amazon in such a way that every dollar you make is having more and more of that dollar extracted by Amazon customers.