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Criticism of Tech Apps Replacing Old Gatekeepers With Similar Power Structures

The post argues that tech companies promised to free users from 20th-century institutions and gatekeepers, but that modern apps instead replicate the same dynamics in a worse form.

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"Tech companies promised us their apps would free us from the gatekeepers and institutions that lorded over the 20th century only to replace them with basically the exact same thing those institutions offered us, but worse." — @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social w
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Criticism of Tech Apps Replacing Old Gatekeepers With Similar Power Structures

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"Tech companies promised us their apps would free us from the gatekeepers and institutions that lorded over the 20th century only to replace them with basically the exact same thing those institutions offered us, but worse." — @ryanhatesthis.bsky.social w

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