doctorow sull’ecosistema chiuso

No, the only real reason to adopt coercive curation is to attain a monopoly over a platform – to be able to shut out competitors, extract high rents on publishers whose materials are sold in your store, and sell a pipe dream of safety and beauty that you can’t deliver, at the cost of homely, handmade, personal media that define us and fill us with delight.

via Curated computing is no substitute for the personal and handmade | Cory Doctorow | Technology | guardian.co.uk.