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If consumers don't own the tech they rely on, they should expect it to be weaponized to control them


This is why almost all communities need to be built on platforms backed by nonprofits and social ventures rather than on the shifting sands of corporate technofeudal overlords. The threat of being extorted and held hostage by corporate demands is an ever-present Sword of Damocles.


But that can happen and if I have anything to say about it (and I do), it will.




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