I’m kind of happy as long as big tech is not running it

Wait for it. It’s coming. That’s why Meta is doing this. We’re in the “embrace” phase of “embrace, extend, extinguish”.

I don’t see how to avoid it, unless the courts step in. The only reason why we’re using the World Wide Web instead of the Microsoft Wide Web is because the US sued Microsoft and won.

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Well, that really puts things in perspective.

At Microsoft, this strategy was called “embrace, extend, extinguish”, but it’s important to realize that it isn’t a practice that’s exclusive to Microsoft.