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

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: 3, Insightful) by Arik on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:51AM (5 children)

    by Arik (4543) on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:51AM (#591998) Journal
    OK, fair enough. I'd like to see a link though if you can.

    I've looked for a licensing agreement or even announcement a few times and not found it.

    The lack of a lawsuit was still a fair reason to suspect it.

    Still, the mental gymnastics are incredible. 'Yes, I know I agreed to an insanely one-sided arrangement where I pay for the hardware but they still own it, they'll probably give me service but this is entirely at their discretion, they'll spy on me in every way imaginable and sell my info to anyone that will pay for it, and this is all contributing to the ultimate destruction of our society and doubtless untold human suffering. But I need to do 'x' and I'm in a hurry.'

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  • (Score: 2) by MichaelDavidCrawford on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:12AM (4 children)

    by MichaelDavidCrawford (2339) Subscriber Badge <mdcrawford@gmail.com> on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:12AM (#592043) Homepage Journal

    As there are no longer any barbers, I get my hair cut at hair salons.

    During one such haircutting session, the hairdresser realized I had an iPhone 4, and begged me to sell it to her. It's not like she couldn't get one at the mall. No she had to have mine and RIGHT NOW.

    I contemplated offering it in return for a blowjob, but decided that would be uncouth.

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    • (Score: 1) by Arik on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:18AM (1 child)

      by Arik (4543) on Saturday November 04 2017, @03:18AM (#592049) Journal
      "As there are no longer any barbers, I get my hair cut at hair salons."

      You should move back to America, we still have barbers here.
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      If laughter is the best medicine, who are the best doctors?
    • (Score: 2) by stretch611 on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:32PM (1 child)

      by stretch611 (6199) on Saturday November 04 2017, @01:32PM (#592149)

      As there are no longer any barbers, I get my hair cut at hair salons.

      Barbers are a dying breed... there are a few left but not many.
      I took a different solution... I started shaving my head.

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      • (Score: 2) by Phoenix666 on Saturday November 04 2017, @11:43PM

        by Phoenix666 (552) on Saturday November 04 2017, @11:43PM (#592307) Journal

        I don't know what you guys are even talking about. I never have a problem finding a barber. I have noticed though that the trade seems to have been handed off from the Italians to the Azerbaijanis.

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