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> they're only sticky as long as they do a good job

> Groups like AWS or Google are actually pretty vulnerable (...) build a complete alternative internet for a while there until the management in tech relented and allowed them to speak up in public

The part of AWS or Google infrastructure necessary to "speak up in public", relative to their total infrastructure, is probably close to the tiniest number you can imagine. I can't see how an alternative web forum or short text message service, even if used and supported by many, could make AWS or Google vulnerable. And as a reminder, the public is not a customer for Google nor AWS.

Or maybe by "the US right wing" you meant a handful of billionaires who would fund an alternative to Google and AWS? That still sounds naive to me. The estimated assets of Google or AWS in datacenters only is somewhere in the hundredth of billions, plus a good fraction of that every year for maintenance. Their current valuation is between $2 and $3 trillion.

Having no exeprience about peasants revolts (yet ;)) I only meant to comment on that part of your message.