Google's Systematic Campaign Against the Open Web and Internet Commons
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Slow-proofed and worth the wait. Worth its weight in flour.
Summary
This article argues that Google is systematically destroying the open web through monopolistic practices and strategic enclosure of internet commons, drawing parallels to Microsoft's historical tactics but suggesting Google is more successful in achieving this goal. The piece focuses particularly on Google's decade-long campaign against XML standards and how the company is leveraging its dominant market position to eliminate open web technologies in favor of proprietary, extractive alternatives.
Key quotes
· 4 pulledGoogle is managing to achieve what Microsoft couldn't: killing the open web.
The efforts of tech giants to gain control of and enclose the commons for extractive purposes have been clear to anyone who has been following the history of the Internet.
What I want to talk about in this article is the war Google has been waging on XML for over a decade.
The juggernaut is taking advantage of its dominant position to enclose and destroy the commons.
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