> Tech companies do not control the internet. They do not own the internet. While I generally agree with you, sadly that hasn't been true for a few years alrea

> Tech companies do not control the internet. They do not own the internet. While I generally agree with you, sadly that hasn't been true for a few years already, by now a select few tech companies control the majority of the web and increasingly even own more and more of it [0] In many developing countries Facebook is acting as sudo-ISP, for millions, if not over a billion, people, FB is literally the whole web they experience, they don't know anything else and they've been very successfully convinced that they don't even want anything else. [0] https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.htm...