{"id":7420,"date":"2018-06-28T16:06:53","date_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:06:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/?p=7420"},"modified":"2018-06-28T16:06:53","modified_gmt":"2018-06-28T16:06:53","slug":"want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay-the-new-york-times","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/28\/want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay-the-new-york-times\/","title":{"rendered":"Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay &#8211; The New York Times"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>When the biggest platforms seem to be flailing or punting on problems, it\u2019s often because they\u2019re trying to address broad social issues with market solutions. They\u2019re rediscovering, at scale and at great expense to their users, the ways in which a society is more than a bazaar, and the pitfalls of allowing human attention to be sold and resold as a commodity. If a platform is addressing a collective problem in a maddeningly strange way, consider that it might see itself, or only know to govern itself, like<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Source: <em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2018\/06\/20\/magazine\/want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay.html?utm_source=pocket&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_campaign=pockethits\">Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay &#8211; The New York Times<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When the biggest platforms seem to be flailing or punting on problems, it\u2019s often because they\u2019re trying to address broad social issues with market solutions. They\u2019re rediscovering, at scale and at great expense to their users, the ways in which a society is more than a bazaar, and the pitfalls of allowing human attention to &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/2018\/06\/28\/want-to-understand-what-ails-the-modern-internet-look-at-ebay-the-new-york-times\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Want to Understand What Ails the Modern Internet? Look at eBay &#8211; The New York Times&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[62],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7420","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-personal-angol"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7420\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/onthe8spot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}