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Google is Using AI to Censor Independent Websites
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Enclosure of the digital commons. An attempt to at least. I do think that it’s ultimately doomed.
Fundamentally, the internet is an open thing, by the very nature of how it works, thus it is difficult to enclose. Google is more likely to destroy its market share than to fully gate off its user base.
But when all is said and done, the average person will be left to pick up the pieces of the fractured web they leave behind.