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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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What the Web Was and What It Has Become
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There is a 20% chance of tomorrow.
(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.