What's Up With Them?

Large companies have been to enclose the open internet forever. Spotify as removing pot casts from the open eco system and locking them inside its walled garden. If a t and t started bouncing mail chimp messages, it wouldn't take them three years to get someone at ma bell to remove the block. These technical matters are niggling, abstract and obscure. But when we talk about digital share cropping, these are the ways that creative workers are corralled into making money for giant companies beholden to their ongoing largesse.