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The Stoop
A weekly column on neighborhood platforms, surveillance, the attention economy, and the very slow, very expensive process of the resistance finally sending the bill back. Sharp, opinionated, cited when it matters.
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Someone should have to pay to ring your doorbell
Every 'free' neighborhood network is you-as-the-doorbell — infinite rings, no payment. HomeStoop inverts the transaction: identity, location, attention, and the money flows to you.
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Meta paid $17 billion. Homeowners paid more.
Meta settled its child-safety case for $17.1 billion this month. 56 cities kicked Flock cameras to the curb this year. This wasn't a coincidence.
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