Critique of Corporate Web Ownership and Vision for Decentralized Internet
By
speckx
A baker's-dozen of insight crammed into one ring.
Summary
The article critiques the current state of the web and internet, arguing that corporate ownership and government policies have turned users into 'tenants and products' rather than co-owners and participants. The author advocates for a return to a more decentralized, community-owned web where users have genuine ownership and control over their digital spaces, contrasting the current surveillance economy and 'enshittification' with a vision of a more equitable, participatory internet.
Key quotes
· 5 pulledToday, the Web and Internet are owned and controlled by large for-profit corporations and a few governments.
Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product.
It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification.
Those two questions lead me to a bigger question.
I think the answer is suggested by a corollary found in the history of lab
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