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What the Web Was and What It Has Become

posted by martyb on Friday November 03 2017, @11:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the took-a-wrong-turn dept.

canopic jug writes:

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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  • (Score: 1, Insightful) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:36AM

    by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday November 04 2017, @12:36AM (#591955) Homepage

    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.

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