microsoft spent the 90s trying so hard to enclose the web the american government had to get involved. apple is repeating these tactics on iOS and the EU has had to get involved. XMPP was embraced and killed, google killed reader, the list goes on.

this isnt just a theoretical concern, we have *decades* of experience running the experiment of introducing corporations into open spaces with disastrous consequences. its bonkers to me that people are arguing "this time will be different" somehow