It certainly represents a sea change where the "leaders" in tech are now basically gatekeepers to new technology's viability. Thats been the case for a while, b

It certainly represents a sea change where the "leaders" in tech are now basically gatekeepers to new technology's viability. Thats been the case for a while, but now the players are the ones who were built on the relative freedom of the internet. It could absolutely just shut the whole distributed platform thing down, but the demand will still be there I think, so eventually new platforms could come take its place. Thats of little solace to ICO investors nowadays of course, because it could delay the rollout by a decade or more.