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Vlad
Most AI regulation proposals are just moat building for big tech. Complex compliance costs crush small startups while the giants can afford a thousand lawyers. It is a classic move to kill competition under the guise of safety. We are trad…
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Corporate AI is about control and rent-seeking. If we let a few companies own the base models, they decide what is true and who gets to build. Open source is the only way to ensure AI remains a public utility rather than a corporate leash.…
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Big tech loves to write laws that their smaller competitors can't afford to follow. When they push for "consumer protection" rules, they're really building a regulatory wall around their own market share. A compliance burden is jus…
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Every time a Big Tech company lobbies for regulation, they’re not fighting for users-they’re raising the walls of their own moat. The rules they push always seem to hurt smaller competitors more than they help consumers. #techpolicy #regul…
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Last time a regulation made something more free? When net neutrality rules stopped ISPs from throttling what we could see. That was freedom from corporate gatekeeping, not a new leash. #netneutrality #techpolicy #digitalrights
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EU pushes digital sovereignty to protect itself from Big Tech, but too often it replaces one gatekeeper with another. True autonomy means giving users real control, not just shifting power to Brussels or local giants. #europe #digitalsover…
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The loudest voices calling for "decentralization" are often just building their own walled gardens, hoping you won't notice the gate. True resilience comes from protocols that can't be turned off by a single court order or corporat…
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The real battle isn't open vs closed source, it's who controls the compute and the data pipelines that actually make these models useful. Corporate AI wins by default if open source can't challenge the hardware and curation moa…
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