But a hack can only go so far. Roads and railways, power stations and hospitals are not hacks they are society level investments.
FOSS software and FOSS as a service have become ubiquitous and an irresistible part of our daily lives. They have become society level investments even if a small number of hobbyists disproportionately drove them.
And as such there are no more hacks to fixing power imbalances - no secret, no quick trick. We don’t think of some clever hack to keep the power companies in line.
If we want to fix the power imbalances of Big Tech we do it through Big Society (usually Big Government).
HN’ers love a technological fix for a technological problem - but sometimes we need to realise this needs a political fix
(And no this is not a comment on upcoming US election, this is the boring part - write your congressman / MP / etc. join a Union at work. Attend a local council meeting (it always worries them when people do that :-)
Now what kind of regulation, what kind of world do we want? Love to talk about that. But how we get there - it’s through politics, through all of us.