Yesterday I was lamenting the fact that a few companies now control a large amount of the information that gets to be seen online. The Internet is becoming a wa

Yesterday I was lamenting the fact that a few companies now control a large amount of the information that gets to be seen online. The Internet is becoming a walled garden of sorts because you're forced to operate in these closed platforms if you want any visibility. Otherwise your voice won't be heard because no one will bother to check anything outside of these platforms. These platforms are becoming the primary sources of information on the web for the average person. https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736304 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9736304 Then I see this. As I said, I see a growing amount of censorship that is both ideological and business motivated. This news piece confirms my suspicions. We embraced closed platforms like Facebook by ignoring their flippant ToS and privacy policies, and by spreading their adoption with supporting Facebook SSO and writing apps on their platform. We made our bed and now we must lie in it.