The only way to truly free ourselves is to develop our own decentralized infrastructure. If Hive becomes a threat to them, and they wanted to cripple it, they could, for example, target the image hosting companies, exchanges, ISPs, servers, etc. that interact with the Hive network. Just open a few fake Hive accounts, post some racist stuff, and boom, black-listed by the feds, then any company that interacts with the Hive network suffers the consequences. It has happened before on other networks.
Maybe we should all move to El Salvador and power Hive with the volcano. 😄
Absolutely correct.
Infrastructure is the most important component to this. Without it, all this is theory.
We see developers now going with PWA instead of building mobile apps since Apple and google control that. Each layer needs attention and decentralization.