Antanicus"Google in particular has come close to realizing our nightmare scenario from 1998, a vertically integrated Internet controlled by a single monopoly player. Google runs its own physical network, builds phone handsets, develops a laptop and phone operating system, makes the world’s most widely-used browser, runs a private DNS system, PKI certificate authority, has photographed nearly all the public spaces in the world, and stores much of the world’s email."
Tomas SA2TMSSurveillance capitalism indeed. I like the idea of encouraging collective action by employees at the Big Five, especially sysadmin types that quite literally keep them running