By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026Lately, I've watched the American Big Tech platforms as they underwent their own form of technocarcinization, which is when every tech company turns into Facebook. 3/ 1356
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026For a long time, it seemed to me that you could make sense of the tech platforms by placing them into one of four quadrants on a 2x2 grid, in which one axis denoted "control freakishness" and the other, "surveillance." 4/ 2235
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 01/07/2026Each quadrant had its own canonical company. The most surveillant/least controlling company (top right) was Google. They would let you roam the whole wide internet and exert no control over your conduct, but would spy on you wherever you went. 5/ 1212
