The question isn’t "why does Signal use AWS?" It’s to look at the infrastructural requirements of any global, real-time, mass comms platform and ask how it is that we got to a place where there’s no realistic alternative to AWS and the other hyperscalers. 3/

Maybe fair but there’s specificity lost in seeing “overthrowing capitalism” & anti-trust + strong welfare state “contemporary socialism” - more how Thomas Pickett uses the word than Karl Marx - as the same. My point is elements of JG & strong antitrust have been part of actually existing capitalism

Cory Doctorow himself is a socialist. However his argument with “enshittification” is not, it’s basically Brandeisian anti-trust. And fwiw jobs guarantees (there are drawbacks) are part of the US social democratic/liberal tradition from FDR to Johnson. The Fed’s employment dual mandate if you squint

The calls Doctorow repeatedly makes - anti-trust enforcement with a change in legal standard, platform interoperability and data portability, IP reform - are very different from “overthrowing capitalism.” Actually, they’re liberal, even classicallly liberal

The FT piece goes pretty gently towards them, and doesn't get into the circular financing and power grid capacity issues. But illustrates the way a whole range of insiders are acknowledging that the "???? PROFIT" step is directed by faith, in the idea of AI or in the CEOs

Even one of the financial press articles can show the mainstream concern with it (even if some of the terms go over students heads). E.g. (paywalled) www.ft.com/content/59ba... or www.bloomberg.com/news/article...