You can easily live without tech giants! Stop using a smart phone, use a Linux PC/Laptop, pay for your few online services like e-mail, stop using the internet for shopping and everything else. You know, the way the entire world worked 15 years ago.
> Yes, there are alternatives for products and services offered by the tech giants, but they are harder to find and to use.
If life is somewhat difficult without giant tech corporations, this is inherently unacceptable? No - this is called living in the real world. You do very often have to choose between an immoral yet easy life, and a moral yet difficult life. This has been our constant choice for literally millennia. Every society has had to grapple with it. Entire religions are based on it. It is the completely unavoidable part of life that everyone is forced to participate in.
> If I were still blocking the tech giants today, I wouldn’t have been able to watch this week’s antitrust hearing online. C-SPAN streamed it live via YouTube, which Google owns.
So get a TV! I don't know if you know this, but C-SPAN is a TV channel! You can watch it without the internet! You can even make comments on it without the internet by calling a live show and speaking your mind! Amazing! (But, probably don't do this, as the average caller seems to have about the same political insight as the average YouTube commenter)
This whole premise - that life is impossible without tech giants - concedes that life is impossible without the internet. I assure you that it is not. It's up to you to decide whether that convenience and lack of expense is preferable to the alternative, which is doing things "old school".