The Long, Slow Death of the Internet with Cory Doctorow
Factually! with Adam Conover
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Low Switching Costs Are Like a Technical Reality That's Very Hard to Defend
Mark Uckerberg didn't have to offer people the stark choice of a better service on facebook or all their friends on my space. And low switching costs are like a technical reality that's very hard to defend against. You can, you know, even if google didn't have the full speed of tools for like down letting, remale and moving them somewhere else. So i those switching costs are high to day, and they're not high because of technical barriers. It is true, then, lig, if you tried to build a tool like that for facebook, facebook might object to it, and they'd pay some engineers to try and block it. But, you know,. ultimately,
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