Interesting how much of the commentary here is on the patent being silly, rather than the implications of the monetization technique that the patent describes.

Interesting how much of the commentary here is on the patent being silly, rather than the implications of the monetization technique that the patent describes. We are allowing people to pay a fee to have their expression privileged over others. We are monetizing the salience of information, a betrayal of the very spirit of the Internet (or, at the least, the techno-utopian ideal of the Internet). So yeah, patents are silly. But perhaps what's in the patent is equally troubling.