> But even more importantly, the web is primarily a communications platform, not a broadcasting or publishing platform, those are secondary uses. Except he's w

> But even more importantly, the web is primarily a communications platform, not a broadcasting or publishing platform, those are secondary uses. Except he's wrong on this. File sharing has always been an extremely popular use for the web. Most of the social networking platforms allow you to publish to a large audience of people you don't really know. Facebook does this to a lesser extent, but that's why it's not #1.