The worlds that Google, Apple,  and Twitter, have constructed are being revealed as flimsy creations. They have been able to shape their universes for so long that any disruption in what they have put together can have cataclysmic effects.

North Dakota is working on legislation that would put prevent Apple and Google from requiring developers to use their app stores to distribute their wares. Apple immediately started claiming that the end of the world would be the result of this blasphemy:

Apple Chief Privacy Engineer Erik Neuenschwander slammed Senate Bill 2333 stating that it “threatens to destroy the iPhone as you know it” by demanding the company make changes that would “undermine the privacy, security, safety, and performance” of the ‌iPhone‌.

Apple says that they work very hard to make sure that the apps in their store are safe. That has proven to be an easy lie to refute:

Breitbart News reported recently that iOS developer Kosta Eleftheriou has been highlighting a growing issue in recent weeks — scam apps available in the Apple app store. Each of the scam apps Eleftheriou found appeared to use the same method including boosting their apparent legitimacy in the app store by purchasing fake reviews.

Another threat to big tech is happening in Australia. The Aussies believe Google and Facebook should have to pay for news content that they use to drive traffic.

Australian lawmakers agreed Friday to enable world-first legislation that will make Alphabet’s Google and Facebook pay publishers for content.

The news media code, which Google has complained is “unworkable”, makes Australia the first country to challenge the market dominance of the U.S. tech giants.

Combine these threats with the free market and you can see why they are concerned. Smaller companies that have refused to die like Gab and Telegram are seeing thousands of new users. The people have realized the amount of control that these companies exert over the spread of ideas. They forcibly shape the opinion of the masses into what they think the world should see.

I don’t think it will be long until Facebook ends up sharing  a similar status to Myspace or AOL.