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And this freedom was ended by companies like Google and Facebook who abused this freedom forcing governments to act. Internet was at its worst right before GDPR
by jeltz 2y ago
And this freedom was ended by companies like Google and Facebook who abused this freedom forcing governments to act. Internet was at its worst right before GDPR. I don't think we will ever get back to the old free Internet and instead we will have this power balance between big corps and governments.
- TeMPOraL 2y agoLike with any new frontier. There's age of exploration, then the age of exploitation, and in the latter. Even if the former is usually funded by commercial interests, it's in the latter that they finally suck out everything that's nice and fair and fun about the venture. We're at this stage now with the Internet.