166. Slumlords of the Internet (ft. Ben Tarnoff)
This Machine Kills
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The on-Line Mall and Its Importance
The term mall has been completely divorced from its origins now, because it's the north american way that it's used. But there 're places where people can socialize and transact. And this is a form that critically emerges in the early two thousands out of the rubble of the dot com. The firms that own the pipes of the innernet are best understood as slum lords,. Gouging users while letting their for structure rot. That's low down on the stack. We have the slum lords. High up on the stack, we have the shopping mas. They exist a entandem, oftentimes existing as the same, same company.
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