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[-] 4am@lemmy.zip 21 points 1 day ago

So that you can’t.

You can’t organize against billionaires online if walled garden censored posting to the cloud is the only thing available to anyone. You can’t pirate media if you can’t store media locally. You can’t run a ad blocker if they’re not allowed on their app store. You can’t install linux if your tablet can’t be jailbroken.

You have too much freedom. They must have control back. We allowed them to have enough money to take it, they just had to fool the rubes with the promise of utopian robotic labor via addiction.

[-] barryamelton@lemmy.world 4 points 1 day ago

This is it. Add in that AI is a 1-way filter of information, substituting web search engines. The AI companies will get all the questions and queries from people instead of search engines, you will not find information unless through the black box service of an AI company. The death of the open web, for the billionaires benefit.

this post was submitted on 07 Aug 2026
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