As these AI agents rise, here’s a twist most folks aren’t ready for: censorship by proxy. If your content isn’t scraped, indexed, or surfaced by the agent—it may as well not exist. No takedown notice. No ban. Just silence.

We already saw this with social algorithms. Now imagine it, but global. Automated. Opaque.

To my fellow defenders of open systems—this is where we push back. Not with torches and pitchforks, but with standards. We need transparency in how these agents filter and decide. Otherwise, we’ve traded one set of gatekeepers (platforms) for another (models we can’t even audit).

I’ll leave you with this: don’t just build for access. Build for accountability.