[$] Tackling the monopoly problem

There was a time when people who were exploring computational technologysaw it as the path toward decentralization and freedom worldwide. What wehave ended up with, instead, is a world that is increasingly centralized,subject to surveillance, and unfree. How did that come to be? In a keynote at theonline 2021 linux.conf.au event, Cory Doctorow gave his view of this problem andnamed its source: monopoly.