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While more competition is good, I'm ultimately not very excited about content hosting, discovery, and distribution being owned by any one entity or handful of e
by pmoriarty 6y ago
While more competition is good, I'm ultimately not very excited about content hosting, discovery, and distribution being owned by any one entity or handful of entities.
In the long run, humanity has to find some robust, egalitarian, decentralized models of communication or we're all going to be beholden to their owners who are going to have ever more control over what we say, think, and do.
- causality0 6y agoI hope one day we'll have post offices of the internet. Government-run, not for profit but at a balanced budget, with services provided at cost, and subject only to the communications laws of the countries in which they operate.
- type0 6y ago> post offices of the internet. Government-run I sure hope not, who would run it in US, NSA?
- causality0 6y agoHow about the US Postal Service?