In the early days of what we now call the internet, there were a number of different players and it was an opportunity for smaller guys as well as bigger companies. What we've seen over the past 20 years or so is a concentration of power into fewer and fewer hands. The politicians were believing in this multitude, but it was a less affair that led to what you described with big tech pulling all those strings. And I think big tech knew that this would lead to this, that it would be the big winners. We could see this coming and the politicians were not mature enough to say, okay, we need to do something. Regulation is not a bad word. Many good things came out
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Welcome back to another season of Code for Thought. And I'd like to kick it off with an interview with Bastien Guerry. Working for the French government, Bastien promotes the use, creation and distribution of Free Software. And in our conversation we discuss the four freedoms as defined by the Free Software Foundation.
Bastien is also an active member of the Emacs community and a contributor to one of the modes: Org mode - a note taking facility. Having used Emacs for a long time it's good to see that it is alive and well.
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