Web 2 is digital feudalism

The platforms hold digital land from the gov’t in exchange for corporate taxes

The workers are in paid to work on the platforms, while the users (aka serfs) are obliged to live on the platforms and give homage, labor, and a share of their life, toil away endlessly

creating and destroying; flying cars, roc.camera, july.rocks

My realization of this came a few years ago, when on a whim, I looked at the videos I've "liked" on YouTube. for the videos I liked 2008-2011 a full 70% were marked as "this video is unavailable". I tried this experiment around 2020. Now if I do this, those unavailable videos are completely gone zero trace of them.