/lit/ - Literature

the window of unregulated open internet is soon coming to a close. Regulatory measures imposed in the name of copyright protection, privacy, and protection from harassment will soon require any new website not only to disclose identity of owners and users, but to also include expensive web frameworks in the backend to comply with officials. This also means site owners are held liable for all content that appears on the domain at any time.

This will not be largely objectionable to the masses, because their web experience never leaves 5 site owners, maximum, and all these companies can spend millions on compliance, and developed user monitoring anyway for their own purposes, but it will effectively price everyone else out of the business. Network providers become government contractors. Internet access becomes a human right.

Every new site will account for this new financial burden by running their site like most start-ups do. Soulless, and aiming squarely at an established market sector and audience. The inability to compete with large businesses - who can still offer services for free - will lead the new generation of websites to develop more aggressive strategies for sustainability, or simply be short-term projects that vanish once the hosting contract is up. Eventually, social media turns into the auto industry, where every new player in the industry is a drawn-out, expensive, highly scrutinized affair, and one's brand loyalty is touted publicly, and all the while Facebook remains as the city bus, an ever-present option, but one that fewer and fewer successful people wish to take.

And then things continue getting worse as the global community, now isolated due to national disagreements taking place by proxy via segmenting the web, attempts to grab hold of what was lost, and recreate an unregulated network without the innocence to the idea that was necessary to keep the original world wide web from being immediately coopted by a larger group with an agenda.

>itt post BAD BANNED BOOKS that THE MAN DOESNT WANT U TO READ

what exactly are you asking for?

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