i think that once upon a time facebook and google wouldn't do such things for fear of loosing customers to the competition, now its different: they got us hooke

i think that once upon a time facebook and google wouldn't do such things for fear of loosing customers to the competition, now its different: they got us hooked and now they are behaving as if they were a real government. This consolidation around 'platforms' and lack of competition is not good for the internet.