[jlj]

What if the corporate structure reserved ownership shares for the users, and/or per-impression ad revenue went directly to the content creators. Some way to keep control distributed instead of centralized, that is baked into the company charter from day 1.

[lucaspiller]

I don't think that would really solve anything. You can go out and buy shares in Alphabet if you want, but if (without the funds of say Warren Buffet) you think that's going to stop them selling your data to advertisers, good luck.

[jlj]

I meant something where the content creators are the owners from day 1, and are always the owners, like a co-op. Then any profits left over after infrastructure costs get paid as a dividend proportional to the audience size of the content creators or the ad revenue they generate.

Somehow removing the middle man that is Alphabet, Twitter, facebook while still providing the infrastructure.