> The best way to not be in a digital cage is to opt out of the current digital products.

Bullshit. These are all-encompassing monopolies and government services. More likely, they'll ban you and you'll end up having to go to court out of desperation to demand that they service you.

This is very limited thinking. If you lacked this sort of imagination 20 years ago, you wouldn't have been able to predict today.

> Frankly I would welcome a world in which kids are not using Instagram or TikTok.

This is the sort of passive reactionary nonsense that causes the danger that we're in. Everything isn't something to give up lightly, even if you think that it will force your neighbor to turn his music down, or get rid of bad reality television. I don't like kids on social media either. I don't like adults on it. I think kids are suffering more from surveillance than from TikTok.