When this is over, we're going to owe Musk a debt of gratitude for demonstrating not just the folly of relying on sociopath billionaires to give us places to speak and collaborate.

He's demonstrated the danger inherent in all centralized services where one person or company can control what we say and do.

@dangillmor and also these big corporations will collude with right-wing or other authoritarian politicians to deliver what's payed for regardless of some irritating democratic tradition the local peasants are attached to.

@hanscees

It doesn't even matter if it's "right-wing" or what ever. Monopolies always are about power. And power always empowers power and is ultimately accessed by those who crave for power. That's why "we" invented democracies and federation. And that's why "they" always come to undermine it cause of their desire for power.

"It's the setup, stupid!"
(no not you hanscees)

@dangillmor