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Report | The Web Index, by the World Wide Web Foundation:
“We stand at a crossroads between a Web “for everyone” ― one that enables all people around the world to improve their life chances and reduces inequalities both between and within countries ― and a “winner takes all” Web that further concentrates wealth and political power in the hands of a few.”
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The Internet’s Original Sin – The Atlantic
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Pick Of the Week:“I have come to believe that advertising is the original sin of the web. The fallen state of our Internet is a direct, if unintentional, consequence of choosing advertising as the default model to support online content and services. Through successive rounds of innovation and investor storytime, we’ve trained Internet users to expect that everything they say and do online will be aggregated into profiles (which they cannot review, challenge, or change) that shape both what ads and what content they see.” (by
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