Chris TrottierMy problem with Twitter isn't that a particular billionaire owns it.
It's that a billionaire can own Twitter.
Internet services owned by billionaires:
1. Twitter
2. Facebook
3. Instagram
4. TikTok
5. Snapchat
Internet services not owned by billionaires:
1. Email
2. IRC
3. BitTorrent
4. RSS
5. HTTP
So don’t tell me that walled gardens are inevitable and we should just accept surveillance capitalism as the price of doing business.
seeteegee@atomicpoet the second list aren’t services. They are protocols.
@seeteegee Do those protocols serve somebody?
@atomicpoet yep, some of those protocols are most often used in the form of services run by very large companies.