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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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(Score: 2) by driven on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:05AM (2 children)
Not unless they have found a way to filter out all the spammers. The signal to noise ratio on newsgroups are absolutely horrible.
(Score: 5, Insightful) by maxwell demon on Saturday November 04 2017, @05:17AM (1 child)
That measure has existed for a long time. It's called killfile or score file (the latter is a more refined thing). Add some Bayesian Filtering to the mix (which seems to work quite well for email, so I don't see why it shouldn't work for Usenet).
And then there are moderated newsgroups, where spam is no issue for obvious reasons.
And one would want server admins that are not shy of taking action when required (like an UDP against Google when they were the biggest source of spam with a completely unresponsive abuse department — indeed, I suspect Google quite intentionally killed Usenet in order to promote their proprietary Groups; this is back when the vast majority of people still believer their "don't do evil" motto).
The Tao of math: The numbers you can count are not the real numbers.
(Score: 1, Insightful) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday November 04 2017, @04:26PM
I tried to warn people about Google and that whole "don't do evil" thing. I guarantee you that the vast majority of people at good (with the exception of a handful) actually see themselves as doing good. The problem is that Google is an amoral machine that doesn't care about intentions, it focuses on results. So while Google doesn't set out to do evil, it is the natural result.