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We are able to work to repair the web by breaking apart Large Tech and depriving them of monopoly earnings, or we are able to work to repair Large Tech by making them spend their monopoly earnings on governance. However we won’t do each.

Fixing Big Tech will require a lot of iteration. As cyber lawyer Lawrence Lessig wrote in his 1999 book, Code and Other Laws of Cyberspace, our lives are regulated by four forces: law (what’s legal), code (what’s technologically possible), norms (what’s socially acceptable), and markets (what’s profitable). ~

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