You always own your intellectual property, mailing list, and subscriber payments. With full editorial control and no gatekeepers, you can do the work you most believe in.
I'm aware of a guy who came to the US on a student visa, dropped out of school and then worked illegally. Then he started tampering with Federal elections and is grifting the government for profitable contracts. His name is Elon Musk.
"Sophiacide" means the killing or destruction of wisdom, knowledge, or intelligence. It's a neologism, combining "sophia" (Greek for wisdom) with "-cide" (meaning killing). The Covid response was many things including a sophiacide as every academic discipline across the U.S. succumbed to totalitarianism.