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It's not like the early Internet was a haven of for profit companies in the early days. Early on most of the profit was in providing the access, not the conten
by kromem 8y ago
It's not like the early Internet was a haven of for profit companies in the early days.
Early on most of the profit was in providing the access, not the content.
- seanhunter 8y agoThis would be competing against the existing internet though, where there are a lot of for-profit companies fuelling the content (for the consumer). If I'm a business I need to decide whether to back a scrappy startup infrastructure with no users or to go with the established internet with a vast potential customerbase. If I'm a user I need to decide between the existing internet with vast swathes of content and huge numbers of different services and this new network with better protections for my privacy but basically none of the above. The early internet was innately disruptive and extremely different from anything that was there before. This doesn't have that advantage as far as I can see.
- dustingetz 8y agothere doesn’t need to be a haven, i only asked for the name of a single entity!