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posted by Fnord666 on Wednesday August 23 2017, @03:46PM   Printer-friendly
from the a-narrow-view dept.

Elizabeth Kolbert at The New Yorker writes about the implications that technology monopolies have for culture by asking "Who owns the Internet?". Three decades ago, few used the Internet for much of anything and the web wasn't even around. Today, nearly everybody uses the web, and to a lesser extent, other parts of the Internet for just about everything. However, despite massive growth, the Web has narrowed very much: "Google now controls nearly ninety per cent of search advertising, Facebook almost eighty per cent of mobile social traffic, and Amazon about seventy-five per cent of e-book sales."


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  • (Score: 1) by crafoo on Thursday August 24 2017, @05:58PM

    by crafoo (6639) on Thursday August 24 2017, @05:58PM (#558528)

    Actually, what people are calling liberals today are really regressive authoritarians. Corporate censorship falls in line with what they want to achieve - authority over what others can view, talk about, and ultimately the ideas they can think about. So, whenever corporate censorship is brought up a gaggle of clucking "liberal" regressive geese show up to inform everyone, "This isn't censorship! The 1st amendment only applies to government agents! Corporations are PRIVATE businesses and are free to do whatever they want! Except bake the cakes they want. Not that."