Bad shape
January 14, 2025
The evidence of the past decade and a half argues strongly that platform corporations are structurally incapable of good governance, primarily because most of their central aims (continuous growth, market dominance, profit via extraction) conflict with many basic human and societal needs.
Source: Bad shape
Erin Kissane is one of th deepest and most clear eyed thinkers about the mess that is social media and big technology more broadly.
In this piece she argues that
big platforms, like Dickens’ Marley, were dead to begin with, and are now something particularly bad, which is dead on their feet.
