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Why do all of these companies decide they are so tired of existing?
It's the final stage of the pump n dump.
Spez got his millions, he no longer cares, probably.
And Aaron Swartz is dead.
They think that their domination is strong enough so that after an initial backlash, the users will come back since they have nowhere else to go. And they’re kind of right.
They think they are so entrenched that the thought of users leaving is not a consideration at all. He said it himself and been proven right. Governments are also asleep at the wheel. Their users are prisoners.
That works until it doesn't. Though it has been a few years since there was a nice notable example.
Those hundred of millions of users create a lot of inertia. We are fortunate these places are run by clueless megalomaniacs. If they had been run competently, they could very well take our civilisation prisoner for hundreds of years like the counterparts in Russia and China.
You assume that the governments of which you speak are not assisting intentionally. These companies did not write the EULA legal frameworks that allow them virtual carte blanch to take and do whatever they want just because the population is trapped in the endless cycle of coercion that is our life.
Self destructive addiction even happens to corporations.