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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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What Big Tech's Monopoly Powers Mean for Our Culture
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Do not use if foil seal is broken.
(Score: 2) by meustrus on Thursday August 24 2017, @01:49AM
That's just because liberals have heard about the magical Free Market for so long they have started believing in it. And much like conservatives have believed for decades, liberals believe the Free Market will magically solve their problems because something something invisible hand.
If there isn't at least one reference or primary source, it's not +1 Informative. Maybe the underused +1 Interesting?