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by sanity31415 1130 days ago
In theory you are right, but in practice a handful of companies control the services everyone uses and the infrastructure behind it.

The fundamental problem is that the web is client-server, which inherently leads to concentration of power - and this is what we've seen over the past few decades.

Freenet replaces the client-server web with something entirely decentralized. More detailed explanation at [1].

[1] https://freenet.org/about#introduction_html