again, just to reiterate my unwavering unpopular viewpoint: having a single entity (or 2-3 colluding entities) control vaste swathes of the internet is fucking

again, just to reiterate my unwavering unpopular viewpoint: having a single entity (or 2-3 colluding entities) control vaste swathes of the internet is fucking insane. * 1 - 2 last mile providers per area. * google virtually entire world search engine (pagerank variations used in every major one) * facebook controls most of the worlds personal account info / verification * twitter realtime sentiment and data broadcast. facebook and twitter are less dangerous than time warner and google, but facebook is still massively dangerous because a real fb account is more proveable than a ssn. its 10 digits vs, 10 years of your digital life, including any part of your life that ws important to someone else. I still don't get this: > I have a backup of my application data on aws in several regions, I also have a replicated backup on azure, and I push to tarsnap every quarter just in case. This viewpoint considered pragmatic and best practice. > We should allow Google & Baidu to essentially control the onboarding, searching, verification, security, document storage, mobile, transmission, DNS, and CA on the internet. this is fine. If you don't like it, use duckduckgo or bing's version of pagerank. - everyone