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The Death Of The Open Internet
Crackerman111 writes "There's an article up on Economy.com's The Dismal Scientist that's sort of a follow up to the /. post a few days ago that talked about how businesses want a new profitable internet."
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Yes. Well if you hadn't realised that before then you're pretty stupid. All companies do with the internet is use it to advertise. When have you gone to a company website and had it provide you with INFORMATION and not have it try to sell you something?
Why can't companies have their own internet? Let them! I think what we're actually talking about is a corporate www. Sure, every day I'd log into 'adnet' to see what corporate bastards are trying to push down my throat. Companies don't realise that their very presence on the internet is rather unwelcome. People hate ad banners, they hate having to buy things (not because they have to give their credit card number over the net, but because most other stuff on the net IS free). If they made a more corporate version or changed the current system so that it was more easy to market products over it, people simply wouldnt use it as much.
Mind you, I'm sure that if the current open web dies we'd make up something else similar.
ghaa.
"businesses want a profitable internet"
Businesses exist to make money. It's stunning how few people seem to understand this.
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