A Tale of Two Cyberspaces

Somehow we went from a network of millions posting on thousands of Web sites to a network of billions posting on…one of a half-dozen Web sites completely controlled by megacorps . And it's not just on the posting side…we don't even want to read, listen to, or watch thousands of possible network destinations either. We are expected to accept that all information will soon be mediated through the latest release of the MegaPlexaChatPilotify 5000 app.

This is not the cyberspace I signed up for.

This is something…other. And the sooner we realize the thing we joined 10, 20, 30 years ago has been very nearly replaced by a artifice which feels somewhat familiar but operates on an entirely different scale and promoted by entirely different operators, the sooner we can identify the escape routes out of these nightmarish shadowlands.