Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

by Jonathan Taplin

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Taplin, a former music-industry executive and USC director, argues that the concentration of platform power in Facebook, Google, and Amazon destroyed the economics of creative work and eroded democratic discourse. The book argues that libertarian ideology inherited from Peter Thiel's circle turned monopolistic platforms into an unexamined political project.

Published:: 2017
Pages:: 320

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In this collection, Move Fast and Break Things: How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy references 4 other books.

It draws on The Everything Store, In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives and The Master Switch.

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Stone's The Everything Store is cited repeatedly for Taplin's critique of Amazon's pricing power and its treatment of publishers and suppliers

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The Everything Store

by Brad Stone

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Levy's In the Plex is cited for Google's origins, AdWords mechanics, and the search-advertising business model Taplin indicts

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In the Plex: How Google Thinks, Works, and Shapes Our Lives

by Steven Levy

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Wu's The Master Switch is a direct intellectual ancestor Taplin cites for the argument that information industries cycle between openness and monopoly

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The Master Switch

by Tim Wu

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Isaacson's Steve Jobs is cited for the founder-hero narrative Taplin views as ideological cover for the platforms' extractive practices

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Steve Jobs

by Walter Isaacson

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