The platforms have rigged things so that you must have an account with them in order to function, but they also want to have the unilateral right to kick people off their systems. The combination of these demands represents more power than any company should have, and Big Tech has repeatedly demonstrated its unfitness to wield this kind of power.

  • hello_hello [comrade/them]M
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    Funny that GNU Project founder Richard Stallman wrote about this exact thing a while ago.

    https://www.gnu.org/philosophy/who-does-that-server-really-serve.html

    I don't know what more to say to other people anymore. It's like talking to blueanon sometimes when I bring up free software and protecting your rights. I hope the entire western tech industry collapses into oblivion.