Dark patterns of digital putting behavioural economics in the ACCC’s crosshairs

Welcome to Unmade, mostly written on Tuesday afternoon at a pleasant enough hotel in a pleasant enough part of Sydney.

It looks like I picked the right week for a trip away from Tasmania. I know the severed internet was supposedly some sort of accident, however, I’ve a hunch that my fellow Taswegians were attempting the full Brigadoon. (Others will merely see a rain dirty valley, of course.)

Happy International Rescue Cat Day. Enjoy your special holiday by trying not to vomit up a hairball, Loki & Sophia…

The platforms problem

I’m not saying that it took a long time to read the ACCC’s latest discussion paper for its Digital Platforms Inquiry, but I was in Tasmania during the summer when I started it, and in Sydney in the autumn by the time I was done.