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"content": "<p>Famously, Bob Metcalfe, the inventor of Ethernet networking, coined “Metcalfe’s Law”: <br />“the value of a telecommunications network is proportional to the square of the number of connected users of the system (n2).” </p><p>That is, every time you add a new user to a network you double increase the number of ways that users can connect with one another.</p><p>But while network effects are a good predictor of whether a service will get big -- they can’t explain why it stays big. </p><p>Cheap printers might entice many people to buy a printer for home, and incentivize many retailers to carry ink and paper, and encourage businesses and schools to require home printouts -- but why would printer owners shell out big bucks for ink when there’s lots of companies making cheap cartridges?</p><p>Apple’s App Store might be a great way to find reliable apps (incentivizing people to buy iPhones, and incentivizing programmers to make apps for those iPhone owners) -- but why continue to shop there once you’ve found the apps you want, rather than dealing directly with the app’s makers, who might give you a discount because they no longer have to cut Apple in for a 30% commission?</p><p>And Facebook is full of people whose company you enjoy -- but if you don’t like its ads, its surveillance, its deceptive practices, or its moderation policies, why not leave Facebook and find a better platform (or run your own), while continuing to send and receive messages from the communities, friends and customers who haven’t left Facebook (yet)? </p><p>Short answer? <br />Because you can’t. </p><p>Big Printer periodically downgrades your printer with “security updates” that prevent it from using third party cartridges. </p><p>Apple uses legal and technical countermeasures to stop you from running apps unless you buy them through its store. </p><p>And Facebook uses all-out warfare and deceptive smear campaigns to stop anyone from connecting their tools to its platform.<br />Software locks, API restrictions, legal threats, forced downgrades and more </p><p>- these are why Big Tech stays big. <br /><a href=\"https://www.eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/facebooks-secret-war-switching-costs\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener noreferrer\" translate=\"no\"><span class=\"invisible\">https://www.</span><span class=\"ellipsis\">eff.org/deeplinks/2021/08/face</span><span class=\"invisible\">books-secret-war-switching-costs</span></a></p>",
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