Really great article. I have similar sentiment in my recent article called Reflections - Social Media Revolution. Why are we not receiving the full potential benefits of technology? Because the old world gods of the consumer empire wish to exert their outdated paradigm of control into the new paradigm of transparency.

It's a contradiction. It's so obvious to those that have eyes in their head that there is this big iron curtain of secrecy and we're all just meant to play along and give these tech giants our data in this new Social Revolution. But we're being sold short of the true benefits truly decentralized social media should give us.

To change the mediums into decentralized forms will change society. This power shift is what they're afraid of and what they're trying to avoid.

It's time we stood up.