Addressing the Digital Platforms Problem

How important should they be, and how do we regain some control?

I’ve been tracking a larger conversation about how exploitative Spotify is, and how the big tech platforms have made themselves both a necessity for artists and a net-negative on revenue that should be supporting artists.

Chris Zappa

,

Ted Gioia

, and

Matty C

all published must-read articles on the subject in December (links below) and they prompted me to think again about how I “ac…