I'm not normally an optimist but I am when it comes to big tech monopolies and censorship. I'm convinced more people are discontent with the behavior of Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc, than there are people happy with censorship, and that is creating significant market pressure to develop alternatives. There are many, they just all suck.

Online privacy is another example of big tech and the government quietly fucking you without your knowledge or consent, and the marketplace for privacy protecting alternatives is developing quite well. DuckDuckGo, Protonmail, Startpage, certain Linux distros, Android ROMs, VPNs, Signal, Tor, anonymous debit cards, all were built in response to privacy invasions, and many are polished, full-featured alternatives to the tech giant offerings.

We'll get there with censorship. It'll be a harder fight, because free speech always means defending unpopular speech, and all the alternative platforms are populated by the deplorables who left the usual social media sites. That just means you have a whole bunch of normies who hate Twitter, Reddit, etc, who don't have a place to land yet.

I'm not normally an optimist but I am when it comes to big tech monopolies and censorship. I'm convinced more people are discontent with the behavior of Reddit, YouTube, Twitter, Facebook, etc, than there are people happy with censorship, and that is creating significant market pressure to develop alternatives. There are many, they just all suck.

Online privacy is another example of big tech and the government quietly fucking you without your knowledge or consent, and the marketplace for privacy protecting alternatives is developing quite well. DuckDuckGo, Protonmail, Startpage, certain Linux distros, Android ROMs, VPNs, Signal, Tor, anonymous debit cards, all were built in response to privacy invasions.

We'll get there with censorship. It'll be a harder fight, because free speech always means defending unpopular speech, and all the alternative platforms are populated by the deplorables who left the usual social media sites. That just means you have a whole bunch of normies who hate Twitter, Reddit, etc, who don't have a place to land yet.