The Fiddlerverse protocol and the Mastodon application that's built on it has a built-in freedom of exit. This is also built into RSS, you know, you just passed the 10th anniversary of the death of Aaron Swartz. And so if we're going to have like a golden rule of the internet, which is the right to exit, right? The right to leave and go somewhere else without the Anatavka problem. That's something that we could equally impose on a hobbyist who's hosting 10 of their friends and falls out with one of them or on a multi-billion dollar company.
Biden will get a new Chief of Staff, the U.S. Attorney has questions for Amazon, and Elon takes the stand. Over at Netflix: strong subscriber growth, and Reed Hastings is out as Co-CEO. And of course, more layoffs. Then we’re joined by Friend of Pivot Cory Doctorow on his new book, “Chokepoint Capitalism: How Big Tech and Big Content Captured Creative Labor Markets and How We’ll Win Them Back.”
Cory is on Twitter at @doctorow and you can find his book here.
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