> letting tech companies privatize and eat away at the open nature of the internet, so now we have to live in tech giant fiefdoms where they can determine the very form and content of everything displayed on the web because they're the ones who control every access point and standard.
Wooow slow down buddy. Nothing like that is hapening. I can still hook up my computer to the internet and start serving websites right away. Google can't do anything about that. Neither can Facebook, or any GAFAM.
However Google did change your behavior is entirely on you. You can live without them just fine. Until that is changed I can't see any need for regulation.
Your answer is technically correct (I know, I know, it's the best kind of correct...) but the typical case is that without using the tech giants to propagate your site (search engines, social media, instant messenger services), your site is effectively banished to the dark recesses of the internet, where only your friends and the people who mistype an URL will visit.
I mean, that is pretty much the open nature of the internet. Everything was banished to the dark recesses of the internet and just your friends and family, until we had Yahoo, Altavista, Excite, Lycos, and then Google...An open internet doesn't mean everyone has equal visibility and promotion.
Easy there partner. Are you saying that it’s time to regulate a Corp if and only if grandparent commenter needs them to live? Do they do baptisms in the google analytics data lake so you can make that decision with the requisite omniscience?
Wooow slow down buddy. Nothing like that is hapening. I can still hook up my computer to the internet and start serving websites right away. Google can't do anything about that. Neither can Facebook, or any GAFAM.
However Google did change your behavior is entirely on you. You can live without them just fine. Until that is changed I can't see any need for regulation.