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Later, Bluesky CEO Jay Graber spoke of the promise that the web once held, and how she later grew pessimistic as it turned into a tool to surveil and control instead of liberate and create. IMAGE CREDITS:TECHCRUNCH “We have built a civilization of the mind in cyberspace, but we’ve ended up giving over our lives to large, centralized platforms whose CEOs have styled themselves as self-made monarchs of the kingdoms that we’ve built for them with our data and our time,” said Graber. “We have to remember where the power really lies because we gave them that power and we can take it back.” At her speech’s conclusion, the audience erupted with applause and hoots that lasted a good half a minute. This was no mere developers’ conference. This was a movement.