David Vorick Expressed:  As crypto grows, giants like Apple, Facebook, Google, Amazon, will look at us and ask, “how can we control the market?” They will not play fair. “This website is malicious.” “This app has been removed from the app store.” They will lobby congress. They will make us illegal.

Consenting to cookies and terms of service is a farce. I don’t consent, and I’m not happy about it, but I have no other way to talk to my extended family. We are in an abusive relationship with corporations. Consent does not apply when you don’t have viable alternatives.

This is a case where the simple idea is attractive, makes sense, and is dead wrong. The private sector intentionally sets up their products in an addictive way, intentionally gets you to redesign your life around depending on them. If you have a dependency, you also have rights.

Something like 15% of my music collection on YouTube – a service I pay for – has been retroactively redacted. It is simply infuriating. Mainly because I know a lot of these artists happily release their music for free.

Spotify can do the same thing anytime; you don’t own or control your music there any more than you do on YouTube.

Community response:  They will undoubtedly try only to fail.  As their products worsen and the decentralized alternatives improve, it will be increasingly easy to ignore them.  Nero can fiddle as much as he wants, but Rome, i.e., Google, Amazon, Apple, etc., will eventually fail; it is inevitable.

They can try and fail because it’s in our human nature to live free, and the starting point is our minds. The drastic changes in our environment will create the biggest opportunities like decentralized energy and the internet. The rest is up to us to wake up.

Soon they will offer you money to get some “feature” on Skynet or Sia; maybe you accept and do the same as Uniswap did last week, creating a “whitelist” of sites that works on this “decentralized” network!”

Buy a mainstream smartphone, and you can’t even access the desktop until you click “I agree.” We need open-source Linux smartphones that work with the major carriers and give you administrator privileges with access to the decentralized web.

What happened to the laws against monopolies? What happened to freedom of speech? What happened to privacy and protection from illegal search of papers and effects (data). They’re making billions on our data, and we have to click “agree.”

I still prefer old-fashioned downloads that I get to play anytime, anywhere.