Assimilating the Web

Assimilating the Web

It reads like a typical Salon article, which is unfortunate because this item has some important points to make. Essentially: we are at a crossroads. The internet, which began with a proliferation of independent publishers, has declined to the point where only a few sites control most of the viewers. And what those sites - Microsoft and AOL, mainly - would like to do is to eliminate the competition and created a closed internet. More...