[kelnos]

> we can’t have a small number of companies from the west coast of the US serving as gatekeepers to the world’s knowledge

I've lived on the west coast of the US for 20 years now, and the prospect of this terrifies me. In a "humanity's future is bleak" sort of way.

[TaylorAlexander]

Yeah I mean, I have lived here my entire life, so 39 years. Honestly it's not like this area is uniquely terrible, though living here does give you lots to point out as problematic, but we simply should not have any single group controlling our information, whether that is silicon valley people, west coast people, Americans, etc etc.