Cory Doctorow

And that is the final stage of the giant pile of shit.

Yeah, I mean, people found friends.

They made communities.

We got Me Too out of it.

We got Black Lives Matter out of it.

We got all kinds of social movements because people were able to find each other.

I mean, the problem with Facebook isn't that you had a place to talk to your friends.

The problem with Facebook is that once you were locked in because you loved your friends, Mark Zuckerberg could ruin your life and know you weren't going to leave.

Right.

Is there a platform that- Sure.

Yeah, so I don't think it's inevitable.

So there's a kind of simplistic answer to this, which is like, well, you, the almighty consumer, failed to shop with sufficient care.

And so because you weren't willing to pay for the product, you became the product, and it's all your fault.

I think that's nonsense.

That's like, you didn't recycle hard enough, and that's why there's a wildfire.

Right?

Your consumption choices aren't what dictate this stuff.

There's also a temptation to say, oh, well, it's these, like, ketamine-addled Zucker Muskian failures that are running the world.

And clearly, they're terrible people.

But they're just filling a void that was created by policy.