Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet

Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet by faizshah on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:31AM (#21387548)

HN is pretty niche. In some countries like the phillipines, most internet users stay on Facebook for almost their entire session. Even so their internet is filtered through Facebook Basics (and one could make the argument our internet is filtered through google).

Even when looking at reddit in the western world, most people don't click the links, they stay on reddit.

I would say we did get something wrong by not regulating enough and allowing companies to monopolize the internet and further to act as private intelligence agencies with no legal liability for the data stored.

I take issue with the author mentioning blockchain though. Im not going to derail the thread but everyone should look into datproject as the future: https://blog.datproject.org/2018/01/16/dat-privacy-models/

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Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet by efdee on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @10:37AM (#21387620)

I would say that the people who today only consume, and stay on single sites (eg not clicking the links on reddit) would simply not have cared about the internet if it had been the way you suggest.

Whether that would be a good or a bad thing is up for discussion, of course :-)

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Re:Leonard Kleinrock on what went wrong with the internet by greenshackle2 on Tuesday October 29, 2019 @12:24PM (#21388948)

But in the "good old days" the entire WWW was pretty niche, wasn't it?

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