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Google admits the open web is in ‘rapid decline’ (www.theverge.com)
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For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

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[+] -19 points 11 months ago (2 children)

That doesn’t undermine my argument that it was ultimately because of the capitalists that the internet spread in the first place.

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    It does undermine your argument though, because you are saying that it only spread because of capitalists. I'm telling you it spread because of government funding and capitalists were just the medium by which the funding was used. The capitalist part is replaceable and unnecessary.

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  • [–] 0 points 11 months ago

    I'm telling you it spread because of government funding and capitalists were just the medium by which the funding was used.

    It doesn’t work just by you saying it. According to multiple sources, the government clearly didn’t want to fund commercial internet and largely backed out during the 90s.

    The capitalist part is replaceable and unnecessary.

    It doesn’t matter if you think it’s replaceable, I can make that claim too. What matters is what actually happened in reality.

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