We need to nationalise Google, Facebook and Amazon. Here’s why | Nick Srnicek
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Monopoly platforms like Google and Facebook will take over the state – unless the state takes them over first, says the author and academic Nick Srnicek

With Google’s recent monopoly status being a topic a discussion recently. This article from 2017 argues that we should nationalize these platforms in the age of platform capitalism. Ahead of its time, in fact the author predicted the downfall of Ello.

  • schnurritoEnglish
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    1 month ago
    • Google: plenty of other search engines exist right now, if this argument had been about gmail or Android, I could have understood it better
    • Facebook: yeah we can tell this was written before the rise of the fediverse because the solution there is completely obvious to anyone reading this…
    • Amazon: maybe because of its cloud services? In terms of e-commerce Amazon is literally just one online shop out of many, I at least do not buy from Amazon especially more often than other online shops.