Google released a benchmark to evaluate AI research agents—then topped its own leaderboard. The company built the infrastructure, defined the test, and declared itself the winner. Competitors without integrated search can't compete on tasks designed around Google's architecture.
#TechMonopoly
“Switching Costs: The Quiet Force Trapping Users Online”
Cory Doctorow explains how high switching costs distort user choice, weaken moderation options, and reinforce platform lock-in.
This episode explores the rise of platform consolidation, the loss of user agency online, and the path toward a federated, interoperable, democratic internet.
🔗 Full episode: https://youtu.be/4KXJyfl7hBg
#FediVerse #OpenWeb #DigitalRights #TechMonopoly #Podcast #TheInternetIsCrack
Cory Doctorow: How Big Tech Broke the Internet
Watch the full conversation. https://youtu.be/4KXJyfl7hBg
#OpenWeb #DigitalFreedom #TechMonopoly #TechDiscussion #Podcast #TheInternetIsCrack
🤔 What's really behind the call to "learn to build on the ideas of others" broadcasted by Microsoft? We should be cautious, especially given its past history of the "Embrace, Extend, Extinguish" strategy it's used for dominance in the past.
➡️ https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/inconvenient-truth-behind-convenience-using-others-ideas-xegze/
#OpenSource #Microsoft #TechMonopoly #DigitalLabour #DeveloperCulture #EthicalTechnology #DigitalFeudalism #SoftwareFreedom #TechPhilosophy #TechPrivilege #DigitalColonialism #AntiCapitalism #LeftTech #TechForGood #PlatformJustice
Why should we care? Because 'salami tactics' can reshape industries in the shadows, leaving competitors in crumbs. From tech to finance, this playbook is reshaping competition without the boom of big bold moves.
#SalamiTactics #CorporateStrategy #TechMonopoly #BusinessAction #Regulation pic.twitter.com/placeholder #MarketDomination (4/4)
💸 Zuck Poaches His Way to AI Domination
Is Google's entertainment venture a bid to reshape public perception of Big Tech's influence? #Google #TechEthics #TechMonopoly
Google’s monopoly just got legally smashed—but will it matter?
#TheInternetIsCrack #Antitrust #GoogleTrial #TechMonopoly #TooBigToFail #PlatformPower
🚨 Elon Musk may acquire TikTok’s U.S. operations as geopolitical tensions rise, expanding his influence in social media alongside X (formerly Twitter). Is this another step toward Big Tech monopolization?
Meanwhile, Mark Zuckerberg’s shift to an “alpha-male” persona aligns with Meta’s new policies, including replacing fact-checking with community notes. Are these changes empowering users—or something else?
#TechMonopoly #SocialMedia
Crumbling Chrome
The U.S. demands that Google sells its Chrome browser. Is this the end of its dominance of the search market?
✅ 𝗥𝗲𝗮𝗱 𝘁𝗵𝗲 𝗳𝘂𝗹𝗹 𝘀𝘁𝗼𝗿𝘆 𝗼𝗻 𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝘀𝗶𝘁𝗲 (𝗹𝗶𝗻𝗸 𝗶𝗻 𝗯𝗶𝗼)
#marketing #chrome #google #googleantitrust #techmonopoly #googlebreakup
☁️ Looks like Apple's iCloud has a £3B storm brewing! UK lawsuit claims they're making their garden walls so high, even Mary Poppins couldn't float her data elsewhere. When your "free" 5GB fills up faster than a London pub at happy hour, what choice do you have? 🌧️ #TechMonopoly #iCloud
It never was about free speech.
https://disconnect.blog/pavel-durov-and-elon-musk-are-not-free-speech-champions/
📰 Breaking: Google loses landmark antitrust case! 🚨
A U.S. federal judge ruled that Google illegally monopolized search and text advertising markets. 🔍💻
Key points:
* First major anti-monopoly decision against a tech giant in decades
* Google violated Sherman Act
* Exclusive deals with Apple and Android devices criticized
* Google plans to appeal
This could reshape the tech landscape! What are your thoughts? 🤔
#Google #Antitrust #TechMonopoly #DigitalRights #SearchEngine
https://www.cnbc.com/2024/08/05/google-loses-antitrust-case-over-search.html
It costs MYR1,600 (335USD) per person to use licensed copies of #Windows and #Office at work. This is more than the cost of a basic office PC itself.
The vast majority of PC users have no real reason to require using Windows or Office; it's just what we've been told to use, and never considered any alternative.
#FOSS #Linux #TechMonopoly #sunkcost #vendorlock
https://dartsandletters.ca/2022/07/29/ep62-socialize-the-series-of-tubes-ft-ben-tarnoff/
Really digging this ep of Darts and Letters podcast about the history of how the internet got started as a project of the American government, and then was 100% privatized. I'm learning a lot, and it's gloomy but fascinating.
#internet #US #Canada #InternetAccess #DartsandLetters #podcast #SeriesofTubes #Privatization #TechMonopoly #Monopolies #LateStageCapitalism #Neoliberalism
Real resistance?
#TechMonopoly
#RubinReport
BREAKING: Era of Big Tech Over? Big Threat to Tech Monopoly Emerges | Di... https://youtu.be/Eus2pfsEQJs via @YouTube
Bruce Schneier on his blog:
>Cory Doctorow has writtten an extended rebuttal of The Age of Surveillance Capitalism by Shoshana Zuboff. He summarized the argument on Twitter.
>
> Shorter summary: it's not the surveillance part, it's the fact that these companies are monopolies.
• https://www.schneier.com/blog/archives/2020/08/cory_doctorow_o_2.html
• https://pluralistic.net/2020/08/26/destroy-surveillance-capitalism/#surveillance-monopolism
• https://onezero.medium.com/how-to-destroy-surveillance-capitalism-8135e6744d59
#fz_links #SurveillanceCapitalism #AttentionEconomy #TechMonopoly
"70% of Web traffic today is just through Google and Facebook"
Dr. Prabir , President of FSMI
#Tech4Democracy #Surveillance #TechMonopoly #Privacy
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