How Silicon Valley Enshittified the Internet
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The article discusses how Silicon Valley has negatively impacted the internet through 'enshittification', a term coined by Cory Doctorow, and the discussion revolves around the implications of this phenomenon on the tech industry.
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It’s worth asking what might have happened if the web had started somewhere else, in a place that treated it as a public utility instead of a private marketplace.
Would we still have ended up with the same mess of ads, data collection, and walled gardens?
Maybe America’s real contribution to the web wasn’t technology at all, but the story that innovation excuses everything.
I recommend reading Mark Carney’s writings before taking Doctorow’s stuff at face value.
That's a good point. Or another way to say it is that silicon valley didn't ruin the internet any more than a bunch of other companies ruined other market sectors.