[sickbeard]

> More and more, users are put into - sometimes golden - cages, and forced to hand over their ideas, personal information, and even identities to international quasi-monopolies that put everything into walled gardens which the creator can only access through tiny keyholes.

I don't think this has anything to do with software, it seems more like an attempt to educate the masses on the evils of facebook and twitter, but then again that isn't a software problem. You can see this kind of locking system in financial businesses like loans/mortgages, or even benign ones like the eyeglasses business.

[rtens]

They might not be as benign as you think: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CAeHuDcy_bY

But I agree that this is not a software problem but a business model problem. The solution however, can be software.