The Internet seemingly creates a breeding ground for Heavily Monopolistic (One Seller) and Monopsonistic (One Buyer) services using the Platform Model. They create a feedback loop of "All the Producers are there, so I better watch consume there and All the Consumers are there, so I better Produce there". This feedback loop is only broken by incorporating a unique feature or design, such as seem with Twitch on video hosting. The Issue is that these massive corporations buy up unique designs that begin to compete. (Example: Facebook purchasing Instagram)
The only firms that can compete in this environment are those who have enough cashflow to counter-offer on purchasing unique features and designs.
I believe that the Government needs to put into place some set of procedure that breaks the feedback loop. Making Internet companies into utilities, would only give the government a monopoly and monopsony on them.
I thought so too at first, then I took a deeper dive into this and found replacements for pretty much everything, a few examples:
Google search -> DuckDuckGo (may need some time to get used to it)
Google drive -> Nextcloud + own server
Android -> Lineage OS (clean android without Google spyware and bloatware)
Chrome -> Brave or Firefox, Brave is chromium based tho but chromium is still open source and detached from google spyware
Google analytics -> Matomo
Google docs -> libre office or nextcloud + libreoffice if you want it online.
Gmail -> Protonmail
Google maps -> Openstreetmap
Google ads -> Brave rewards or just accept cryptocurrency donations
Google domains/dns -> any based hosting or cloud company
8.8.8.8 -> 1.1.1.1
Youtube -> Bitchute or any based video site
Blogger -> any based hosting company
Google cloud -> lol, any based cloud
Google news -> who want fake news anyway?
Smart TV -> GNU+Linux PC with HDMI, never ever connect the TV to the internet
Google pay -> chip in your brain? nah just use the plastic card or cash, it ain't that hard
Google translate/finance -> the only services I can't see could possibly have an agenda to lie, use with VPN or use any available based alternative
The only issue is that some of these alternatives requires some sysadmin work which most of the sheeples are to lazy to do, which is why they stay with google where all those services is just one click away.
Google is really hard to escape, Facebook is tough cause of family, but Twitter was real easy... couple presses here and there and boom, I'm out.
The Internet seemingly creates a breeding ground for Heavily Monopolistic (One Seller) and Monopsonistic (One Buyer) services using the Platform Model. They create a feedback loop of "All the Producers are there, so I better watch consume there and All the Consumers are there, so I better Produce there". This feedback loop is only broken by incorporating a unique feature or design, such as seem with Twitch on video hosting. The Issue is that these massive corporations buy up unique designs that begin to compete. (Example: Facebook purchasing Instagram)
The only firms that can compete in this environment are those who have enough cashflow to counter-offer on purchasing unique features and designs.
I believe that the Government needs to put into place some set of procedure that breaks the feedback loop. Making Internet companies into utilities, would only give the government a monopoly and monopsony on them.
I thought so too at first, then I took a deeper dive into this and found replacements for pretty much everything, a few examples:
The only issue is that some of these alternatives requires some sysadmin work which most of the sheeples are to lazy to do, which is why they stay with google where all those services is just one click away.
There're replacements, the biggest issue for me would be moving off all my Gmail accounts onto my protonmail.
Also going without Youtube for me is very tough, alot of my casual videos are real important. I at least disabled ad personalization though.
Ad and tracker blocking is sufficient if you do have to use any google services. After all the goal is to avoid feeding them.
Add four more heads and you’d have the seven-headed beast of Revelation.
Start with Bill Gates.
you ever pull out a long hairy wad of nast from the shower drain? that's dorseys beard...
Death to America.☝👁💀👹
I bet Zuck would have a beard too... but robots can't grow hair...
Not sure if this is OC OP, but if it is it's very clever. And if it's not it's still very clever.