> Rigidly hierarchical, rent-seeking obscurantism isn't, uh, popular. What is the current state of the web? Rigidly hierarchical All internet governing bodie

> Rigidly hierarchical, rent-seeking obscurantism isn't, uh, popular. What is the current state of the web? Rigidly hierarchical All internet governing bodies wield absolute power. Most of the computing experience is completely controlled by a handful of global corporations that are more powerful than many nation states. You don't control or have any influence over most of this. Rent seeking AWS, domain names, social networks? The web is rent-seeking at every level. Obscurantism Most of the code we use is worse than obscure, it's literally proprietary. I would say these qualities are very popular today.