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by fuckpig 4557 days ago
After basically 20 years of commerce dictating the needs of the net, I'd think we've already lost it.

The internet model worked when subsidized by a military and academic community supported by a massive industry.

Now that it's trying to pay for itself, it's looking a lot more like television or those free newspapers that are more ads than articles.