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Commercialization Of The Internet
Anonymous Coward writes "For those anti-corporate tech-heads out there, Excite is running an article about how companies are taking over the net through the use of the courts, trademarks and deep pockets.
From the article, 'Big corporations have a significant and growing presence on the Internet. In March, just 14 companies controlled 60 percent of users' online time, down from 110 companies two years earlier, Jupiter Media Metrix found.'
A final thought from the article,
'This is the last remaining communications medium that allows the small person to participate,' said Barbara Simons, past president of the Association for Computing Machinery. 'To lose that would be a great tragedy.'"
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There's no two ways about it: the Internet must become commercialized.
Not because we, the joe-blow users of the Internet want it commercialized. Rather, because it is the biggest threat to the mediacracy since the invention of the printing press.
And what makes the Internet even more threatening than the press is that the actual publishing is as good as cost-free. At least with paper, you have the overhead of layout, paper, and shipping. With the net, you have the overhead of... nothing.
The media conglomerates simply aren't going to allow that. They can't afford to.
And I believe the government isn't particularly happy about it, either. If you care to dig, you can get all sorts of truthful information about the bad-ass things our governments and corporations are doing.
An information-empowered people are a dangerous people: they know things they shouldn't, they can coordinate too easily, and they get smarter.
Between the media conglomerates and the government, you damn well bet that the glory days are over!
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You know what I think caused the downfall of all those dot-coms? It was because people who were only qualified to be Sys Admins were hired as Engineers. Fucking Sys-Admins, they'll be the first to be lined up and shot when the revolution comes, the talentless fucktards. PS no disrespect meant to DBAs, you guys are cool, you're the ones that keep this country going, mad props.
boo!
Go Kathryn Thurber!
Well why don't the mom and pops start letting advertisers onto their networks and start stuffing their customer's mailboxes with spam? It'll bring more revenue in and make them more competative.
I get these all the time
You are in a twisty maze of processor lines, all alike.
There is a lot of hype here.