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That is why we need trustless / censorship resistant platforms like “regular” web or the yet to be proven web 3 (led by ethereum)



No. We just need two things:

- it should be illegal to lock down a device against its end user

- governments should stop protecting companies and helping prevent adversarial interoperability


> governments should stop protecting companies and helping prevent adversarial interoperability

Do you realize that given our current laws in the US, that this is pretty much impossible?


As a person from a country that's not US... Everything being centralized around the US and other countries basically having no sovereignty is also a huge problem.

When two companies collude, it's illegal. When countries do the same, it's perfectly legal and is called a "trade agreement" because it's them who write laws.




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