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THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: Search algorithms on the ad-funded web are all about *selling you something you don't need or want*. Marketing in the purest sense. When the W3C opted for ad-supported web rather than microbilling to fund build-out of the internet to the general public back in 1996 they made a terrible mistake: in the 30 year time scale it may turn out to have cost us democracy.
@cstross Public infrastructure should be publicly owned and tax funded.
@dawngreeter Yup. But back in 1995, nobody realized the *public* internet was going to be significantly bigger than the BBS scene—uptake around 0.1-1.0% of the population. (I remember: I was there, joined my first web startup that March.)