No, trust is not slavery.
But if you are not even aware of such trust or what such trust enables, if you cannot understand in any way if it's going to be used well or not, if you cannot have any sort of impact on the life of those you trust... that's slavery.
If a doctor poison you, your parents can sue him, kill him or whatever...
So your trust is backed by a form of feedback control.
If Google (or Twitter or Facebook) tune your search results (or time line or whatever) to hide certain ideas from you and your neighbours or to increase the probability a certain idea spread among your peers... you have no way to imagine that unless you have a deep understanding of how the software you use works.
Same if WhatsApp tell you it's secure. Or Signal, or...
Informatics is everywhere, just like writing.
If you HAD to resort to a free reading&writing service for ANYTHING you had to read or write, would you call it a democracy?
I guess not.
Informatics is exactly the same: it's a primitive field, just like writing was in Ancient Egypt. And it's a tool to centralize Power, just because it's primitive.
To free people, we do not need to give them easy tools for free. That's what #GAFAM pretend to do!
To free people, we need to give them SIMPLE and COMPOSABLE tools but we also need to explain them that they shouldn't let any software they do not understand deeply TO USE THEM!
Because if you do not understand a software, you are not a user, but used.
