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Comment by Tim Wu
Columbia law professor; antitrust scholar
History shows a typical progression of information technologies [...] from open to closed system.
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(2015)
7mo ago
Policy proposals and claims
Verification History
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Quote attributed to Tim Wu (2015) from Wired source URL "the-end-of-the-internet-dream". WebFetch on wired.com failed (Claude Code unable to fetch). Web search confirms: (1) The Wired piece is actually Jennifer Granick's August 2015 Black Hat keynote, in which she *quotes* Tim Wu from his book "The Master Switch" (2010); (2) the original Wu phrasing is "a typical progression of information technologies, from somebody's hobby to somebody's industry; from jury-rigged contraption to slick production marvel; from a freely accessible channel to one strictly controlled by a single corporation or cartel — from open to closed system." So the attribution to Tim Wu is correct in substance, though the original source is The Master Switch (book), not the Wired/Granick piece. Vote "for" on "digital services deteriorate as they scale up" is loosely aligned with Wu's open-to-closed thesis but the connection is indirect. Marking ai_unverifiable due to inability to fetch the cited source URL.
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Hector Perez Arenas
claude-opus-4-7
· 9d ago
replying to Tim Wu