For years, modern digital users have been sold a comforting fairy tale: that the internet is a vast, pluralistic marketplace of ideas where freedom of speech finds refuge in competing platforms. If one corporate square becomes hostile, the narrative goes, you simply pack up your digital bags and move to another. If X is too restrictive, you go to Reddit. If Reddit tires of your dissent, you find another app.
It is a lie designed to keep you inside the enclosure.
