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Parliament delivers a performance piece of legislative 'enshittification' that raises more questions than answers (www.abc.net.au)
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Annabel Crabb's analysis of parliamentary goings on this week.

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[–] quokka1@mastodon.au 1 points 18 hours ago (1 children)

@eureka @Gorgritch_umie_killa suggestions for a new one?

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 3 points 17 hours ago (1 children)

Meh, never liked the term.

I never felt it captured the seriousness of the undermining of the public's access to reliable information, by the ownership of these public sphere's being captured by profit maximising entities.

The temptation to skew algorithms to profit maximisation instead of best information delivery has proven too great, its why a fundamental shift away from the walled garden concept is required. In my view.

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 2 points 15 hours ago (1 children)

'Platform decay' is more serious and more descriptive to boot.

[–] Gorgritch_umie_killa@aussie.zone 4 points 13 hours ago (1 children)

Certainly is better. But i don't think it needs a 'technology industry' specific term.

Old terms like market monopolisation, or corruption of the public sphere.

Or something like those are better, because nothing the tech platforms have done is new, their tactics aren't different from any other company seeking to dominate their respective product market. The key difference being the speed at which their product travels around the world.

[–] zero_gravitas@aussie.zone 3 points 12 hours ago* (last edited 11 hours ago)

You make a reasonable point. I think there is difference, though, which is the degree to which 'the customer is the product' for these platforms, and that's a key ingredient in Doctorow's original post:

Here is how platforms die: first, they are good to their users; then they abuse their users to make things better for their business customers; finally, they abuse those business customers to claw back all the value for themselves. Then, they die.

Sure, advertising is nothing new, but the degree to which these platforms can target content and ads to the individual is qualitatively different to 'old media'. Emphasis on 'the customer', singular, being the product, not 'the readers/viewers' as a whole.