"This digital feudalism is cloaked in the language of care and safety. The owners of these walled gardens insist that they are benevolent patriarchs who have built fortresses to defend us from external threats, but inevitably they are revealed as warlords who have built prisons to keep us from escaping from them"

By @pluralistic on this fantastic essay about #socialMedia and #walledGardens

https://pluralistic.net/2022/12/23/semipermeable-membranes/