I agree with Aral in almost every way. I think we can get a little too bogged down in make overly strong enemies of folks like O'Reilly (he's a flawed and problematic figure but certainly not as entirely malicious as some would make him out to be).
The "Web 2.0" concept purportedly includes the Wiki and Wikipedia and Open Street Map as much as anything else. Those things are excellent and are the the parts of the internet that are not only intact but represent the best of our achievements. The problem isn't "Web 2.0", but proprietary control. Web 2.0 when it is truly democratic and freedom-respecting (like Wikipedia) is wonderful. You could say that the advancing technology enhances everything. It enhances the positive impact and value of these true community projects, and it enhances the power and anti-democratic intrusions of proprietary platforms like Facebook. Embracing or rejecting technology is not the answer. The question is what sort of technology. Free/Libre/Open (FLO) internet? Yay! Proprietary internet? Undermines our democracy and society. The tech is relatively neutral. -- Aaron Wolf wolftune.com On Fri, Jun 6, 2014 at 10:21 PM, John Baxter <[email protected]> wrote: > Interested to hear what others made of this provocative article. > > Maybe these ideas aren't new to you but they were to me (and yet seem > compellingly obvious) > > http://aralbalkan.com/notes/how-web-2-0-killed-the-internet/ > > tl;dr: > Open APIs (and other 'open/free' trends) haven't really opened anything at > all, they've been a clever ploy to build closed, privately owned silos - > undermining openness ('killing the internet') > > To me the most interesting questions it raises are about governance of > tech startups / the internet. > > (*Disclaimer: Sorry if a repost, I searched but couldn't find*) > > *John Baxter* > jsbaxter.com.au <http://www.jsbaxter.com.au> > 0405 447 829 > @jsbaxter_ > ᐧ > > _______________________________________________ > okfn-discuss mailing list > [email protected] > https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/listinfo/okfn-discuss > Unsubscribe: https://lists.okfn.org/mailman/options/okfn-discuss > >
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