Facebook already tried it with free basics. Google with its hold on Android devices is going to go down the same path sooner or later. Apple has already it's own closed garden. Netflix is doing that to entertainment.
It won't be a surprise if a few years later you have to buy a package web services from your ISPs and you only see what you pay for. Not like the free internet we imagined for sure.
The internet will likely be split in multiple dimensions. Nations will split off. Companies obviously have an incentive to split off. We can see it being split up, for example, racially and along gender lines. Etc etc etc.
And in the final analysis, maybe that's just the flawed component in the architecture of the internet. Humans.
It likely wouldn't matter how easy a technology makes it for us to talk and communicate with each other, most of us will just use said technology to beat each other over the head.
When I read "no group will hold more than 1/3 control" it sounds like 3 big players will wink at each other while they pillage the WWW and divide the spoils.
Our use of services make us citizens of these digital countries, where a TOS takes on a whole new meaning of how we are governed, beyond physical borders.
What kind of governance do we want over us in the digital world?
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