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The Web began dying in 2014. André Staltz writes about how and why. In a nutshell, traffic from mobile and tablet devices now surpasses that from regular desktop computers and of that traffic the overwhelming majority goes to either Faecebook or Google. Amazon is also in there. None of them have any interest in defending the open Web any more. Rather the situation is the opposite, they are aiming to carve out a section and establish very isolated walled gardens. Net Neutrality, or the lack thereof, lie at the heart of their plans based on the direction they have moved since 2014.
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* m2 stares at the monitor... it looks like a hamburger...
m2 - that's a bad sign
(Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:19AM (1 child)
The price of housing has shot way up. Rent too, with the result that many long-time residents are now homeless.
Oregon law allows no-fault eviction. So if you're not getting enough rent, you evict your tenants then rent to some whiz-kid from California.
Yes I Have No Bananas. [gofundme.com]
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:36AM
It's no different here. But then again those who can make a living on the cheap won't tell you about the sweet spots. We have plenty of Oregonian scum headed south towards here, unfortunately, only the douchebaggist of them, as we are attracting only the douchebaggist from all provinces, counties, and nations; as I suspect Portland is also.