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Scrap billions in infrastructure and software. You can see why this won't happen, right?


What I can see is that it won't be an immediate action by the current power structure. But what I can also see is that it is leading to a corporate-controlled oligopoly that is also fundamentally unstable. So while no one in today's big-tech society will scrap the internet, it may also come down regardless due our inability to make wise societal decisions that transcend micro-moves restricted to the insane, current economic options.


What I see is platitudes and not a plan.

What is the internet you want look like? How does it work? How is it funded?

"The corporate internet is bad" - is it? Or is it the result of giving people what they want. Or is your experience of it a problem with you and not anything fundamental at all? (e.g. the absurd number of people who complain their smart phones are distraction machines but won't uninstall or mute the apps which send them too many notifications).




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