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Jul 23, 2016 at 19:06
How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty https://boingboing.net/2016/06/24/how-to-protect-the-future-web.html (superb discussion of FOSS ethics and trustworthiness)
How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty
How to protect the future web from its founders' own frailty
Earlier this month, I gave the afternoon keynote at the Internet Archive's Decentralized Web Summit, and my talk was about how the people who founded the web with the idea of having an open, decentralized system ended up building a system that is increasingly monopolized by a few companies -- and how we can prevent the same things from happening next time.

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