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by 1vuio0pswjnm7 837 days ago
That's the www not the internet, which is much larger and more flexible than the www. We pay internet services providers for access to the internet. The so-called "tech" companies, backed by advertisers and marketers, are "web service providers" providing access to "websites" and in some cases the greater www. Generally, no one pays for these "services". There is no additional charge on top of what we pay to ISPs. (But there are plenty of exceptions where people do pay additional fees on topof what they pay for internet access. This is quite shocking considering the majority of www users do not pay anything.)

Hence if the www sucks, the internet offers the potential to use/create something better. Without the internet there is no web. But without the web, there is still an internet.