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Web monetization seems like a great way to create a two tiered internet. A high quality one full of usefull information for the wealthy that can afford to pay m
by grawprog 6y ago
Web monetization seems like a great way to create a two tiered internet. A high quality one full of usefull information for the wealthy that can afford to pay multiple subscriptions to websites for content.
Meanwhile, the poor plebs will be left with ad ridden useless garbage they can mindlessly consume.
Even better...why not do it like the Phillipines? Facebook can provide a free service for the poor people where they don't have to pay a subscription for certain sites as long as they browse the web through facebook?
This'll give access to sites partnered with facebook of course, but who needs the rest of that internet anyway?
What a great way to keep poor and uneducated people poor and uneducated. How dare they be able to just hop on the internet and learn whatever they want for nothing more than seeing an ad? Everyone should pay for everything.
- sofixa 6y agoAre we talking about the same Web Monetization? Unless all sites decide to provide everything only as exclusive for WM-enabled browsers ( which IMHO would be trivial to circumvent), what you're saying is not at all on the cards.