https://youtu.be/fYgmHoFOsrE?is=txHcmGOIOgnwFadg

In addition to illegally downloading games, books, and music, we'll be illegally downloading news articles. People will be putting up torrents of slop-free content.

Until the wealthy kill libraries or poison their stacks with “approved” books. Data hoarding…they’ll make it illegal to share the materials they stole in the first place. They’ll wall up the internet like China, Russia, and NK.

Yep. Get people hooked with free results, then make it a cheap subscription, then jack up the subscription just like the streaming services did, then put ads in (or whatever now-unbundled service it is) and force people to pay even more for what used to be included with the original subscription.

This is a new corporate-made hellscape we’re entering.

There won’t be a “free web” unless someone makes it. Whatever that open source local p2p mesh web I heard about people putting together will probably be the “fediverse” version of the under-net.