FYI, you may find this forum on the market abuses of network-based platforms interesting, in the Boston Review. Good commentary from Juliet Schor, Dean Baker, several other tech and policy wonks....and myself, putting in a pitch for the commons.
Here's my blog post on it:
http://bollier.org/blog/how-rein-monopoly-network-platforms
David
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