I'm on a mission here on HN to encourage people to write clearly, with specificity, and without exaggeration. In that spirit, let me show how I would edit the comment above. Here are the parts I would modify (i.e. change X -> Y)
1. "You are a fool" -> leave it out. Think about your audience; this phrase is unlikely to persuade.
2. "Big Tech" -> Social Media (e.g. not AWS or Fastly)
3. "They control" -> "They constrain/frame"
4. "what you can see" -> "what you see first / what is recommended"
5. "control" ... "what you can express" -> "your content on their platform"
6. "control" ... "what do you do outside of the platform" -> [delete]
I would also contrast multinational information / social media technologies with the underlying tools that allow governments to monitor and shape people's activity; e.g. firewalls, packet inspection, etc.
1. "You are a fool" -> leave it out. Think about your audience; this phrase is unlikely to persuade.
2. "Big Tech" -> Social Media (e.g. not AWS or Fastly)
3. "They control" -> "They constrain/frame"
4. "what you can see" -> "what you see first / what is recommended"
5. "control" ... "what you can express" -> "your content on their platform"
6. "control" ... "what do you do outside of the platform" -> [delete]
I would also contrast multinational information / social media technologies with the underlying tools that allow governments to monitor and shape people's activity; e.g. firewalls, packet inspection, etc.