Is the big tech era ending?
Hell no it's not ending, why would you even think that? Because a few governments <i>only started</i> cautiously talking about breaking apart giants? So what? As if corporate lawyers don't find holes in any new regulation literally the same week. Governments take <i>years</i> to formulate a legislation, and your average corporate legal team defeats it in days.<p>The big tech era is in fact now just starting. The big corporations finally realized nobody is seriously challenging them so they will only tighten the grip gradually from here on.<p>I am actually afraid for <i>small</i> tech now. And that one day me using a PiHole might get criminalized. Or a rootless VPN used for blocking invasive traffic on an Android phone might become a reason for some lobbyists to pressure my ISP into stopping my internet access.<p>Keep your guard up, folks, and improve your hardware operation skills -- and any physical real-life skills in general. We can't all be dependent on the corps, they must always be shown we can do without them and we only tolerate them because they are not <i>too</i> unpleasant.