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The only reliable way is to have the clause negotiated into a union contract which also has a "just cause" termination clause.

One more reason to for tech workers to start organizing.

A domain name can go away just as easily, maybe more easily than a popular URL shortening service.

It's only a tradeoff if you assume that the process must be automated and operate with a minimum of actual human scrutiny or consideration.

Any qualified human review would immediately be able to distinguish and vastly improve both the false negative and false positive rates.

But because these tech companies devalue that kind of work they aren't willing to invest in it.

This section is troubling.

> In a not-so-distant future, if we're not there already, it may be that if you're going to put content on the Internet you'll need to use a company with a giant network like Cloudflare, Google, Microsoft, Facebook, Amazon, or Alibaba.

For context, Cloudflare currently handles around 10% of Internet requests.

Without a clear framework as a guide for content regulation, a small number of companies will largely determine what can and cannot be online.

You're seeing something shaped like an exponential growth curve and missing the fact that it's not a growth curve at all. Think about what's on the x-axis here. The graph is really a histogram with average income growth binned into one percentile intervals.

On the second, thanks for the reference, haven't read that. Would be interested to hear how you think that change would lead to these effects.

They're not really growth curves, the curves show relative growth rates. Not quite the same thing.

And if you think some central mechanism has gone horribly awry, what central mechanisms changed around 1980?