I doubt they read past the first line or two of your short explanation.
There's a lot of frustration and pent up anger buzzing around in here and I'm afraid that your cogent explanation isn't what angry and frustrated wants. It wants to be outraged and for everyone to agree with them.
For what it's worth, I think you may be right about the direction the industry is headed.
I don't want to be a doomer but my argument is one of consolidation and greed. Since the mid 00's we've seen a handful of major corps take over and keep little companies from growing and competing. Sites like FB, Google, Apple, etc also use their auth systems with 3rd party websites so their reach is beyond their own web sites. I won't even get into the buying of competing businesses, or some of the things that came out recently with the FB/Twitter hearings recently.
We've also seen FB, paypal, mastercard, apple, and google deplatform people at the same time. It started with Alex Jones and has gotten steadily worse as the "fact checkers" have shown up to keep users in line.
shills are here. Fuck your net neutrality bill that had nothing to do with net neutrality.
What are you talking about? I'm against what Ajit did. Why would I be shilling for him?
I doubt they read past the first line or two of your short explanation.
There's a lot of frustration and pent up anger buzzing around in here and I'm afraid that your cogent explanation isn't what angry and frustrated wants. It wants to be outraged and for everyone to agree with them.
For what it's worth, I think you may be right about the direction the industry is headed.
Thank you for the response.
I don't want to be a doomer but my argument is one of consolidation and greed. Since the mid 00's we've seen a handful of major corps take over and keep little companies from growing and competing. Sites like FB, Google, Apple, etc also use their auth systems with 3rd party websites so their reach is beyond their own web sites. I won't even get into the buying of competing businesses, or some of the things that came out recently with the FB/Twitter hearings recently.
We've also seen FB, paypal, mastercard, apple, and google deplatform people at the same time. It started with Alex Jones and has gotten steadily worse as the "fact checkers" have shown up to keep users in line.