All the big giants are a joke!!
What you think is technological control is a mix of psychology combined with desperate pulls for proprietary control.
Big tech is a joke!!
Routers can be independently wired. They don't need cell phone towers and mobile conglomerates. You don't need "silicone valley" processors you can 3d print them, and the printers that make them.
Big media is a joke!!
You don't need central journalism, you can authenticate visual data and dated reports technologically. Articles have more integrity if they are woven by lots of independent agents all out for their own brand.
Big politics are a joke!!
World midwives are useless. If you have just a few major cities spackled across the planet, concerned with their own survival, they will investigate threats like weapons of mass destruction and snuff out anyone trying to stock up without sharing the pie.
Yes. It's hard to rip down the sycophant empire we are stuck with today but the first step is to dispel the idea that any of this was ever necessary or helpful