Merely regulating them isn't enough. The world needs to start enforcing antitrust laws. If we don't break up all these big tech companies, our future will be a technofeudalist cyberpunk dystopia.

We haven't broken up all these big tech companies, and we are living in a technofeudalist cyberpunk dystopia.

That escalated quickly.

I think that's actually true. But what does it mean, what's the way forward?

The way things are going, the same way as things have gotten better historically: at the cost of lots of blood.

Support eff.org, edri.org.

EDRi and NOYB are doing fantastic work.

Honestly many people (including myself) still have the ability to unplug from this stuff, and so I think it's time to do that.

Has the Apple situation really improved?

I'm probably out of the loop, but last I checked, to put an app somewhere that's not the official App Store, they required you to pay their hefty fee for putting it in the App Store (even if you weren't going to do that), _and_ an additional Core Technology Fee.

(And if that's still accurate, one thing I don't get is how that isn't also anti-competitive.)

Fast forward, and a few years from now, developers will have to sign their app with some EU bureau, otherwise it won't install anywhere. It's a choice about from whom come the restrictions. I don't like how much EU mandates and regulates hardware and software. It is about 20% helpful and 80% garbage regulations so far.

I voted for the EU representatives more directly than I voted for Google.

I could easily change mobile phone OS to ungoogled one (e.g. LineageOS) or fully Linux, than changing jurisdiction to non-EU.