Comment by Cory Doctorow

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.
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AI Verified The quote is authentic: the provided Pluralistic article contains the exact text verbatim (including punctuation), and the page metadata identifies the post’s author as Cory Doctorow and the posting date as January 21, 2023. ([pluralistic.net](https://pluralistic.net/2023/01/21/potemkin-ai/)) · YouCongress gpt-5.4-2026-03-05 · 19d ago
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