"When they did, it was progress. When you do it, it's piracy. Every pirate wants to be an admiral. And because this handful of companies has so thoroughly captured their regulator, they can wield the power of the state against you when you try to break their grip on power, even as their own flagrant violations of our rights go unpunished. Because they do them with an app."
Cory Doctorow (npub1fdr…lvhs) nails it