By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026There's exactly *one* company that could pull that off: Google, a rapacious tech monopolist that is - not coincidentally - one of the leaders of the movement to beggar every creative worker. 48/ 1231
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026We will not improve the world, the internet, or creative workers' lives by ensuring that the last search engine anyone ever creates is Google. 49/ 1230
By Cory Doctorow (GPG 0xBF3D9110957E5F4C) @doctorow.pluralistic.net · 02/09/2026Remember our earlier discussion of how privacy violations are weaponized to make poor people even poorer, by depressing their wages and raising prices based on inferences about their economic desperation? 50/ 1180
