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Move Fast & Break Things by Jonathan Taplin

MOVE FasT and Break Things - How Facebook, Google, and Amazon Cornered Culture and Undermined Democracy

A stinging polemic that traces the destructive monopolization of the Internet by Google, Facebook and Amazon, and that proposes a new future for musicians, journalists, authors and filmmakers in the digital age.

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Jonathan Taplins Move Fast and Break Things, a rock and roll memoir cum internet history cum artists manifesto, provides a bracing antidote to corporate triumphalismand a reminder that writers and musicians need a place at the tech table and, more to the point, a way to make a decent living.
JEFFREY TOOBIN, AUTHOR OF AMERICAN HEIRESS

Move Fast and Break Things tells the story of how a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs began in the 1990s to hijack the original decentralized vision of the Internet, in the process creating a set of monopoly firmsFacebook, Amazon and Googlethat now determine the future of the music, film, television, publishing and news industries.

Taplin offers a succinct and powerful history of how we got to this point. He begins with a small group of libertarian entrepreneurs, Peter Thiel and Larry Page among them, who in the 1990s began to hijack the original decentralized version of the Internet. Taplin show how these firms and individuals began to shape online life in their own image:  tolerating piracy of books, music and film while at the same time promoting opaque business practices and subordinating privacy of individual users to create the surveillance marketing monoculture in which we now live.