Doctrow argues that nascent tech unionization (which we’re closer to having now than ever before) combined with bipartisan fear (and consequent regulation) either directly or via agencies like the FTC and FCC can help to curb Big Tech’s power, and the enshittification that it has wrought.
Hope he’s got about $30 trillion to buy them all then, because that’s the only way it will happen.
We need to wean ourselves off the tech giants. And it’s inconvenient, but the alternative is a series of greedy rug pulls until the end of time.
Given that Microsoft software runs the government, I don’t see this happening very soon. They might as well be another branch of the US government.