Comment by 4gotunameagain
9 hours ago
Turns out that when you are using some oligarch's platform, you don't own jack.
This is digital feudalism, and the billionaires have seized the means of communication.
9 hours ago
Turns out that when you are using some oligarch's platform, you don't own jack.
This is digital feudalism, and the billionaires have seized the means of communication.
Billionaires have always owned the means of communication (just look at the Salzbergers, Murdochs, etc).
Digital decentralized protocols (smtp, http, etc) were the first time this wasn’t true. But you [we] voluntarily moved your communication off of open internet protocols onto private ad-based platforms.
Of course you don’t own anything there, you never did. The billionaires didn’t “seize” anything. You happily sold yourself out for a few clicks of less friction and an easier shot at digital fame by going “viral” on social media company land.
If this isn’t a much bigger indictment of the collective (who after decades still could not agree on a non-elitist, human understandable protocol that didn’t require a CS degree to use) than it is of the entrepreneurs who solved all the problems the collective refused to, I don’t know how else to get though to you.
they didn't ever own radio, as evident by AM radio still being crazy and ham still being around