This is his insta www.instagram.com/romeobartley... and his donation link
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I’m sure there are mental health downsides to these devices. But never forget they are one of the most powerful weapons citizens have ever had to bear witness to state violence.

Yes you are correct. It is because of their marketplace power that they are vulnerable to government coercion.

This is another reason we must be very very careful about monopolies.

And in my slightly nerdier newsletter take, I suggest that we need to think of Google search more as infrastructure than as a product.

That will let us build the robust marketplace we want on top of its data.

buttondown.com/JuliaAngwin/...

Right?!!

I agree - it would be great to do all of it. But we are just two people writing furiously at the moment. Hoping to do more of that once manuscript is in.

I'll keep you updated on book release etc. when its ready next year. For now, I'm heads down reporting and writing.

So if I haven't replied to your email, I'm sorry but this is why. ⌨️💨

Because even as today's authoritarianism is more techno-powered than ever, this is still a tale as old as time.

People have been fighting for their rights, for their dignity, for each other, for a long time.

And it’s time that we study at their feet.

But the project feels urgent. We are in a country that is losing its grip on democracy. This book is not an argument about why and how our democracy is backsliding.

This book is about what we do next - as individuals, as communities, and as a nation.

Now we are expanding our reporting into a book that will come out next summer. In book time, this is a very fast turnaround!

Ami and I have been interviewing and writing furiously for months now. We will be chained to our desks for a few more months as we crank out a manuscript.

The book grew out of an essay we wrote in the New Yorker earlier this year “So you want to be a dissident?” In it, we extracted lessons on how to fight autocrats from dissidents we interviewed from around the world. (unpaywalled link)

archive.is/Bhnj3

It reminds me of the 'open access' conditions on the AOL Time Warner merger which were supposed to open up Time Warner's pipes to other Internet providers.

Without additional structural market support, the plan didn't work. TW made it very hard for competitors and eventually ground them down.

The judge *did* offer competitors limited access to Google's search index, which I previously argued is crucial.

But without any other changes to the marketplace -- no access to Chrome, no ban on Google's billions of dollars to Apple, it's unlikely to be enough.

www.nytimes.com/2024/08/27/o...