Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by potta_coffee on Monday September 16, 2019 @05:55PM
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The web was hands-down better when most content was made by hobbyists without a profit motive. I used to be able to spend countless hours online. Now it's rare for me to stumble across anything worth looking at. Granted, it's easier to search for and find specific information.
Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by ivanhoe on Monday September 16, 2019 @06:51PM
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Totally, just like so many bands were better young, clubs, beaches and restaurants better before they got popular, etc. Unfortunately it's just something that happens when things get mainstream, you can't reverse the process.
Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by xchaotic on Monday September 16, 2019 @05:56PM
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You mean like censorship? Who gets to decide? Or do we continue to upvote like we do now?
Re:100 million dollars to reshape the economics of the web
by devoply on Monday September 16, 2019 @05:57PM
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Not sure what you are talking about, can you quote what you mean? No one gets to decide, I mean personal information being shared between companies on the backend. That should be heavily monitored with oversight. Like the sites you visited, etc.
The other companies like FB, they took bunch of content that belonged to users that users had tools to publish for free and willingly put them in silos.
There is maybe 1% of content that needs saving. The rest of it is the same sort of drivel that you get from tabloids and I say making that stuff economic non-viable is a good thing. The elites though care about making it work because otherwise the democratic media is "fake news", meaning news heavily slanted to what people want to believe rather than what they are told to believe. If you want that, then they should pay for it. Not the people through taxes as Bernie is proposing... or this scheme.
Other than that we have good models like BBC or PBS on how to do independent government and publically funded programming.
In fact if we re-engineered the web so that there was no data sharing between various systems on the frontend, something like everything has to be served from the same canonical domain, and put it in law that you could not share data between various private companies on the backend without heavy regulation and oversight that would be a better web. I mean prism is already sharing all this data, why don't we put controls on that?