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There was a time when people who were exploring computational technology
saw it as the path toward decentralization and freedom worldwide. What we
have ended up with, instead, is a world that is increasingly centralized,
subject to surveillance, and unfree. How did that come to be? In a keynote at the
online 2021 linux.conf.au event, Cory Doctorow gave his view of this problem and
named its source: monopoly.