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1. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2017 03:57:05 EDT clacke
   Thorough analysis of how GOOG and FB took over the web and the consequences. Only skimmed it so far, it's pretty long.
   
   https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html
   
   /by http://viewer.scuttlebot.io/@QlCTpvY7p9ty2yOFrv1WU1AE88aoQc4Y7wYal7PFc+w=.ed25519
   1. Matthew Skala (mattskala@mstdn.io)'s status on Thursday, 02-Nov-2017 09:27:58 EDT Matthew Skala

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      @clacke I wonder how China fits into that. Google , Facebook, and Amazon are not dominant there, I can't see them becoming so, and because of population size and increasing wealth, China isn't going away.

   2. clacke (clacke@social.heldscal.la)'s status on Sunday, 05-Nov-2017 03:37:32 EST clacke

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      More on the topic (audio):
      
      http://freakonomics.com/podcast/thinking-expensive-who-pay/
      
      Mostly on how Amazon in particular uses its market position to strong-arm book publishers, but also on the gatekeepers of information in general.