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

The book "Move Fast and Break Things" is a thought-provoking and insightful exposé that sheds light on the dark side of the tech industry's monopolization of the internet.

With a focus on Google, Facebook, and Amazon, Taplin reveals how these companies have hijacked the original decentralized vision of the internet to create three monopoly firms that now dominate the music, film, television, publishing, and news industries.

The book offers a succinct and powerful history of how online life began to be shaped around the values of the men who founded these companies, including Peter Thiel and Larry Page, and how they have overlooked piracy of books, music, and film while hiding behind opaque business practices and subordinating the privacy of individual users.

The book also highlights the devastating impact of this concentration of power on creators and owners of content, with revenues for musicians, journalists, authors, and filmmakers plummeting since 2001.

Despite these challenges, Taplin offers a hopeful vision for the future, proposing new ways for creators to be fairly compensated in the digital age.

This book is a must-read for anyone interested in understanding the true cost of the tech industry's rise to power and the importance of protecting the rights of creators in the digital age.