Move Fast and Break ThingsHow Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Cultu...

How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Have Cornered Culture and What It Means For All Of Us

Cover Art for 9781509847693, Move Fast and Break Things by Jonathan Taplin
ISBN: 9781509847723
Publisher: Macmillan
Published: 20 April, 2017
Format: Paperback
Language: English
Links Pan Macmillan
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'The question isn't who's going to let me: it's who is going to stop me' Google. Amazon. Facebook. The modern world is defined by vast digital monopolies turning ever-larger profits. Those of us who consume the content that feeds them are farmed for the purposes of being sold ever more products and advertising. Those that create the content - the artists, writers and musicians - are finding they can no longer survive in this unforgiving economic landscape. But it didn't have to be this way. This is the story of how a small number of ideologically driven libertarians took the utopian ideal of the internet and turned it into the copyright-mauling, competition-destroying, human-hating nightmare it has become. Their revolution began with a simple premise: to conquer the world, they would steal the value of art (as well as the value of everything else of importance to human beings) from its creators. It is the story of a massive reallocation of revenue in which $50 billion a year has moved from the creators and owners of content to the monopoly platforms. And if you think that's got nothing to do with you, their next move is to come after your jobs. Move Fast and Break Things is a call to arms to wake up, to say that is enough is enough, to call out the perpetrators of almost inconceivable large-scale cultural theft, and to demand that we do everything in our power to create a different future.

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