@molly0xfff Good piece!

With your analogy in mind, I note that there were pre-Internet walled gardens already, like AOL and Prodigy, and perhaps Minitel. As you note in your piece, people can just leave, and not just theoretically. They've done it before, multiple times. People left AOL and Prodigy, and also MySpace, LiveJournal, etc., though it is harder now because the gates are guarded by those loyal to the lords in the castles.

We don't have to smuggle anything out, though. It's already here. It's where the enclosing neo-feudalists got it from in the first place.