"The assumption of an efficient marketplace of ideas rests on the ideal of a rational consumer of ideas, a homo philosophicus who, like his cousin economicus, turns out to be a fictional character." open.substack.com/pub/newcar…

"A vast, decentralized communication network that transmits data of all sorts to all people is not resistant to information monopolies; it encourages their formation. What Cory Doctorow calls 'enshittification' is not a bug but a feature." open.substack.com/pub/newcar…