> Websites are purposefully made machine-unreadable. This is a sad result of incentives which ruined RSS, semantic web, and the original purpose of the Interne

> Websites are purposefully made machine-unreadable. This is a sad result of incentives which ruined RSS, semantic web, and the original purpose of the Internet: to effectively share and communicate information globally. Advertising (including propaganda and surveillance) and copyright are major forces in that ruination - not to say they don't have legitimate uses and benefits, but their concentrated financial interests conquered the domain. It's a kind of colonialism of public (cyber)space and collective mind. Tax is an apt analogy, since the power lies in the control of "media" in the most general sense, to force itself in every transaction between things and people. I believe "dis-intermediation" will help improve the free and direct flow of information. That is, to reduce the middle layers - the gate keepers, the walled gardens, intercepts (lawful or not), filters - by re-decentralizing the net.