Meredith Whittaker

You have five major social media platforms.

Yeah, yeah. AWS, Azure, GCP. And then, you know, I think the other percentage are made up by U.S. companies as well. And then there's some Chinese companies. And then you have five platforms that effectively shape our global information ecosystem, like our perception of reality. The four biggest jurisdictions in the U.S., right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. AWS, Azure, GCP. And then, you know, I think the other percentage are made up by U.S. companies as well. And then there's some Chinese companies. And then you have five platforms that effectively shape our global information ecosystem, like our perception of reality. The four biggest jurisdictions in the U.S., right? Yeah.

Yeah, yeah. AWS, Azure, GCP. And then, you know, I think the other percentage are made up by U.S. companies as well. And then there's some Chinese companies. And then you have five platforms that effectively shape our global information ecosystem, like our perception of reality. The four biggest jurisdictions in the U.S., right? Yeah.

I'm going to remember four of them because there's always like a last in a list. So TikTok is a non-US one, right? And that's the one they all freaked out about recently. Because it's non-US? Well, yeah. I mean, I think so flatly, yes. Facebook, Instagram, X, and then... It's not Twitch, but anyway, there's another one on that. YouTube. And then there's Twitch, too.

I'm going to remember four of them because there's always like a last in a list. So TikTok is a non-US one, right? And that's the one they all freaked out about recently. Because it's non-US? Well, yeah. I mean, I think so flatly, yes. Facebook, Instagram, X, and then... It's not Twitch, but anyway, there's another one on that. YouTube. And then there's Twitch, too.

I'm going to remember four of them because there's always like a last in a list. So TikTok is a non-US one, right? And that's the one they all freaked out about recently. Because it's non-US? Well, yeah. I mean, I think so flatly, yes. Facebook, Instagram, X, and then... It's not Twitch, but anyway, there's another one on that. YouTube. And then there's Twitch, too.

For all intents and purposes, that's a huge amount of concentrated power that, again, relies on network effects, relies on economies of scale, relies on all kinds of global infrastructure. It's trillions of dollars that can't just be interrupted by investment. This is a social media company. Social media and platform companies, right?

For all intents and purposes, that's a huge amount of concentrated power that, again, relies on network effects, relies on economies of scale, relies on all kinds of global infrastructure. It's trillions of dollars that can't just be interrupted by investment. This is a social media company. Social media and platform companies, right?

For all intents and purposes, that's a huge amount of concentrated power that, again, relies on network effects, relies on economies of scale, relies on all kinds of global infrastructure. It's trillions of dollars that can't just be interrupted by investment. This is a social media company. Social media and platform companies, right?

Well, Telegram doesn't, I think, run most of their own infrastructure. They don't have a cloud business model. And they also don't really have a business model. It seems like they have this crypto play, but it's not clear how that money moves. There's a lot of UAE investments.

Well, Telegram doesn't, I think, run most of their own infrastructure. They don't have a cloud business model. And they also don't really have a business model. It seems like they have this crypto play, but it's not clear how that money moves. There's a lot of UAE investments.

Well, Telegram doesn't, I think, run most of their own infrastructure. They don't have a cloud business model. And they also don't really have a business model. It seems like they have this crypto play, but it's not clear how that money moves. There's a lot of UAE investments.

And what is it difficult? Where is this... Where's the normative shape of the tech industry coming from? If the cloud companies all of a sudden decided to cut off half their APIs and change their infrastructure, there's most startups in the entire world, including organizations like Signal, Telegram, whoever's riding on top.

And what is it difficult? Where is this... Where's the normative shape of the tech industry coming from? If the cloud companies all of a sudden decided to cut off half their APIs and change their infrastructure, there's most startups in the entire world, including organizations like Signal, Telegram, whoever's riding on top.

And what is it difficult? Where is this... Where's the normative shape of the tech industry coming from? If the cloud companies all of a sudden decided to cut off half their APIs and change their infrastructure, there's most startups in the entire world, including organizations like Signal, Telegram, whoever's riding on top.

you know all their engineers pagers go off they gotta you know respond to that right it's it's not it's unidirectional that way right if you know if sanctions go up you know say uh let's do a like a wild dictator gets elected in the u.s and decides that these you know europe is now sanctioned right and then amazon can't do business with europe right like what happens like this is data in the u.s that would never happen yeah

you know all their engineers pagers go off they gotta you know respond to that right it's it's not it's unidirectional that way right if you know if sanctions go up you know say uh let's do a like a wild dictator gets elected in the u.s and decides that these you know europe is now sanctioned right and then amazon can't do business with europe right like what happens like this is data in the u.s that would never happen yeah

you know all their engineers pagers go off they gotta you know respond to that right it's it's not it's unidirectional that way right if you know if sanctions go up you know say uh let's do a like a wild dictator gets elected in the u.s and decides that these you know europe is now sanctioned right and then amazon can't do business with europe right like what happens like this is data in the u.s that would never happen yeah

I make things up as a creative person. Remember, I come from literature and rhetoric. Just stories in your head. Yeah. And then you see the social media platforms, which we do know that there is a...