"Attack of Evil billionaire": Will capital be able to kill a free internet

"Money is a weapon, and once a moment will come, you will not have enough money to change something and influence something. " An over-conservative approach to intellectual property, which makes any property property can lead to Twitter collapse. This approach threatens everything that creators create because billionaires kill socially important or independent projects.

Regardless of whether it will actually destroy it or not, the capture of Twitter is an example for imitation that any other billionaire will be able to create its own "empire of social networks". "It should not be so. You just need to know where to look for other platforms," ​​the author writes. Blockchains fight such problems. The mask would be much more difficult to "kill" blockchain while there is a handful of users who control the independent chain nodes.

For example, when at the end of 2021 the HIC ET NUNC shopping ground for NFT closed, it soon restarted its other version with a new shell around the same content. "Blockchain acts as a general resource, as an organic self -defense," Assar says. There are other "bulletproof" platforms, codes, protocols, the author assures and gives an example of WordPress, HTTP, FTP and TCP/IP, Github, Gitlab, Keybase, NPM.

The latter can be freely used by developers, and its software package simply cannot be deleted. But the widget reminds: even after buying Twitter, after losing positions on the billionaire list, Ilon Mask is still enough money to buy NPM, Github, Gitlab and Keybase and "kill" them, but he will not be able to process them into something It is quite different, because the same git is designed so that, by processing it, you will get again… git. "Capital can kill the code. Capital can kill anything.

If you are important the fate of your project, while there are billionters, you need to turn it into something that cannot be bought.

An idea that cannot be killed is more valuable than an idea that can Buy, and the only thing that cannot kill billions of dollars is that initially cannot have prices, " - says the author and gives an example of" Wikipedia " - a socially significant project that has attracted hundreds of thousands of people around the world, without which it is difficult to imagine Modern information space.

"Twitter may not fall, but even if that happens, we have Activitypub, Bluesky, Mastodon and old good RSS channels. Developers will create great things on JavaScript, store them on remote gitLab servers and post in NPM. The collapse of Twitter by the mask will not be a complete catastrophe for world communication. Everything will be fine with us, because there are other platforms, and new ones will appear, "Assar sums up.