From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay'
From Amazon to Facebook and Google, here's how platforms can 'decay' Enlarge this image toggle caption Getty Images Getty Images If you feel like some important places on the internet have been getting worse, you're not alone. Sponsor Message Doctorow joined All Things Considered host Ari Shapiro to explain what this term means, and why the internet seems to be on this downward slump. And then once those users were locked in — because once you're in a place with all of your friends, it's really hard to leave — they started to take away some of that good stuff they gave them, and they handed it to advertisers and publishers. Doctorow: Yeah, it's a platform being unfettered from competition because they were able to buy their competitors or use predatory pricing to keep them out.

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