{"id":3152,"date":"2023-04-07T17:34:36","date_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:34:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/a-blue-check-on-a-pike-warns-us-not-to-give-up-the-web"},"modified":"2023-04-07T17:34:36","modified_gmt":"2023-04-07T17:34:36","slug":"a-blue-check-on-a-pike-warns-us-not-to-give-up-the-web","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/a-blue-check-on-a-pike-warns-us-not-to-give-up-the-web\/","title":{"rendered":"A Blue Check On A Pike Warns Us Not To Give Up The Web"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The internet, once a hand full of websites, grew rapidly. In July 2008, Google announced it had an index of 1 trillion URLs. Nearly 15 years later, the internet is larger but, in some ways, still a handful of websites. I frequently lament Meta and Alphabet swallowing the web. In a&nbsp;post about TikTok, an app with over 1 billion monthly active users, itself representing a large site that makes the internet feel small, I complained forums and directories are gone. A kind of gentrification for the web where the cool message board is now on Facebook and independent blogs are concentrated on a few platforms owned by&nbsp;companies that can act out in petty ways. In most revenue share models, a large platform, Medium, Twitch, YouTube, and so forth, collect payments from ads or subscriptions and split profit with creators forming a not-technically-an-employee-but-still-kind-of-anemployee-with-extra-steps relationship. A relationship where someone may not work for [platform], but [platform] can suspend income or even remove that non-employee-etcetera&#8217;s work or access to the platform without warning or reason. Platform Control I don&#8217;t think social media is a utility that must be regulated and forced to act with neutrality. Except for actual utilities, housing, and certain banking and adjacent technologies, that sort of regulation would be undesirable. I don&#8217;t want Daily Kos prohibited by law from removing Alex Jones from the comment section. I also don&#8217;t like the world where people work for platforms creating content units with no substantive legal protection. It&#8217;s bad when companies can&#8230;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.masonpelt.com\/a-blue-check-on-a-pike-warns-us-not-to-give-up-the-web\/\">A Blue Check On A Pike Warns Us Not To Give Up The Web<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The internet, once a hand full of websites, grew rapidly. In July 2008, Google announced it had an index of 1 trillion URLs. Nearly 15 years later, the internet is&hellip; <\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[300,1219,51,1220,36,1218,12,637,295],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3152"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3152\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3152"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3152"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.godefy.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3152"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}