Welcome To The Authoritarian Internet

With fascists and technocrats in control of all its major platforms, when should we concede that the battle for the internet has been lost?

I'll often try to explain the social media environment of the aughts and early 2010s by comparing it to a good coffee shop. It wasn't any one thing to everyone, it was defined by the people you experienced it with and the way you all chose to spend your time there. You could argue about politics or chat up a stranger or sit alone with your thoughts. You…