@pluralistic it’s not the state censorship that certain people are calling the recent Twitter Files escapade. It’s a result of the prevailing corporatization of life. I described what coffee shop culture used to be like in the US to my daughter. Hubs of local culture. Now that’s been mostly commoditized and sanitized by Starbucks. It’s long been a sort of social totalitarianism.

@pluralistic Consider the predicted “service society” where no one needs to own anything. The thing is things will certainly be owned…just by corporations.