>The first is that it is destroying the young. >The second critique of the tech industry is that it is causing [...] addiction on purpose, to make money >The

>The first is that it is destroying the young. >The second critique of the tech industry is that it is causing [...] addiction on purpose, to make money >The third critique is that Apple, Amazon, Google and Facebook are near monopolies that use their market power to invade the private lives of their users and impose unfair conditions on content creators and smaller competitors I agree with all three of these, though I think this is fixable. They obvious and easy solution is to pick apart the giants. The EU's ePrivacy Law and GDPR make this possible, in addition to Germany's NdG making it difficult for large social network to operate compared to small ones. The solution, in my opinions, is federated networks like Mastodon. Mastodon Server Operators have little incentive to abuse their users since the users will happily just swarm to another instance. Once they have figured out portable profiles, this becomes even easier. Federation solves these problems by detaching the user from a specific operator.