A future where a single TOS violation makes you economically useless

Imagine an AI future where being banned means you are now economically useless

A thought experiment about a fully integrated AI future: get banned for violating terms of service and you're cut off from smart glasses, bots, and the augmented world everyone else inhabits. The author argues open source is the only safeguard for freedom and economic viability, warning that if OpenAI and Anthropic had gotten their way on cross-platform collaboration, one violation on either service would send users to the sunken place.