PCXT
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I was thinking about this affair with net neutrality and the biggest question here is not how to save the Internet, but do we have anything to save?
The content in the Net drastically changed in the last 15 years and today is not much different than in cable TV or newspapers. We have a group of monopoly publishers and services, entry costs nearly as high as with radio. The independend content gets deleted and the way to publish not in biased media monopolists is disappearing - companies found that robbing users from their law to license their creations as they want is a good idea. Instead of de-centralized medium with small entry and transmission costs, as the Internet was designed, we have a global centralized supervisors network, with administration acting using one set of strict rules (Facebook, YT, Google) without any responsibility.
Saving the internet should be done 15 years ago, before users started to think that Internet==Facebook+YT+Instagram. Now what the FCC did was just confirmation of existing state.
The content in the Net drastically changed in the last 15 years and today is not much different than in cable TV or newspapers. We have a group of monopoly publishers and services, entry costs nearly as high as with radio. The independend content gets deleted and the way to publish not in biased media monopolists is disappearing - companies found that robbing users from their law to license their creations as they want is a good idea. Instead of de-centralized medium with small entry and transmission costs, as the Internet was designed, we have a global centralized supervisors network, with administration acting using one set of strict rules (Facebook, YT, Google) without any responsibility.
Saving the internet should be done 15 years ago, before users started to think that Internet==Facebook+YT+Instagram. Now what the FCC did was just confirmation of existing state.
