Leaving the Oligarchy - Part 1 - Email
The Big Tech Oligarchy has built a rich set of products and services that are available at “no cost”, but in fact the users of these services are in fact the currency exchanged. Google, for example, scans every email message passing through its servers in order to target advertising and train its AI, among other things.
It’s much deeper than just trying to optimize targeting for advertising, it is literally used to manipulate behavior. The 2020 Netflix documentary, The Social Dilemma, is truly sobering.