Digital Fiefdom (aka walled-garden) Required
This community collects stories, cases and situations where people are forced into a walled-garden to carry out a public transaction or essential task of some kind. As governments impose a digital transformation policy with no analog refuge, people are forced into becoming serfs in a technofeudal system that is subservient to lords (Microsoft, Cloudflare, Google, etc).
Well-known walled gardens include (but are not limited to):
- Cloudflare
- Microsoft LinkedIn
- Microsoft Github¹
- Paypal
- Amazon
- iOS
(note I do not say X or Meta above because I do not recognize or promote obnoxious and detrimental trademarks)
¹It’s somewhat unlikely that a gov would impose Github, but it is listed as an example because some govs do have git services. E.g. the EU has a public-facing self-hosted git instance.
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