On The Enshittification of Audre Lorde: “The Master’s Tools” in Tech Discourse
The enshittification story, at its most powerful, describes a process by which platforms that once served users well came to exploit them. But this framing assumes a prior state of genuine service, a golden age of the open internet, that was for many people never particularly golden. The early internet was structured around the assumptions of its architects: predominantly white, male, Western, educated, and abled.
— Tara Tarakiyee.