Everyone in Web3 chants the same gospel: "Decentralization. Liberation. No banks. No middlemen." It sounds heroic. Almost revolutionary. But pause for a second. Are we truly free? Or did we simply swap one prison guard for another—shiny, trendy, and wrapped in blockchain code? The Old Prison: A Familiar Warden In the old world of Web2, the guards were obvious, and they were the people we knew and hated. It was a clear hierarchy ruled by a handful of tech giants. Facebook controlled our social...

Everyone in Web3 chants the same gospel: "Decentralization. Liberation. No banks. No middlemen." It sounds heroic. Almost revolutionary. But pause for a second. Are we truly free? Or did we simply swap one prison guard for another—shiny, trendy, and wrapped in blockchain code? The Old Prison: A Familiar Warden In the old world of Web2, the guards were obvious, and they were the people we knew and hated. It was a clear hierarchy ruled by a handful of tech giants. Facebook controlled our social...