Not alien but just a highly undesirable outcome. In the 90s while mass AOL CD mailings were going out there was fear that "AOLization" of the internet would ha

Not alien but just a highly undesirable outcome. In the 90s while mass AOL CD mailings were going out there was fear that "AOLization" of the internet would happen. The same incentives for AOL curated and walled garden are present today for Google, Facebook etc.