The core activities that get people online and doing things are bad, and to prevent them you have to design a network around *not* giving people what they want. Not giving them what they want but still getting them to use your product is a very difficult thing to do.
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My narrow point is simply that technological determinism is both wrong and serves the interests of those who want control but eschew taking responsibility. We can and do choose how to structure our markets and our corporations. Even having the corporate form is a choice.
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Generally speaking I'm sympathetic to decentralization, that's a separate point to the broader one that political economy choices are choices.
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