Decentralizing control over our data and privacy has never been easier.

But many of us weren't driven to do so until the latest social media purge. They just voluntarily handed a portion of their market share to their own competitors.

From Daily Bell:

I consider the author Neal Stephenson a visionary. For example in his 1999 novel Cryptonomicon, he essentially describes a Bitcoin type cryptocurrency, almost a decade before it existed.

In a past video, I described his idea in The Diamond Age of "distributed governments" which provide insurance-like services to customers, regardless of the geographic area they live in. Customers were free to choose their own government, or go without one.

Stephenson has another fascinating, newer book called Fall, or Dodge in Hell, in which the internet splinters after a massive hoax convinced people online that an entire city had been wiped off the map.

So the way the internet functions in the book after that event is people start hiring "editors" who curate a content stream for the customers, to filter out the truth from the fake news online.

And naturally this leads a massive divergence and splintering of society, when some factions filter everything according to the "truth" of the bible, while others go full blown science– at least their version of it.