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With our implicit mass approval, the 'Constitution' of the modern Web is being authored by a few giant tech companies.

This 'Constitution' will give us the Web of a few giant tech companies, for those few giant tech companies, by those few giant tech companies.

Many here on HN, including me, wish we could have a Web of the people, for the people, by the people.

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The individual (and so also teams of individuals) have never had more powerful technology available to build websites and web apps, and access to be able to put amazing things online than right now. We _should_ be able to do all kinds of things previously unimaginable. When people start caring about competition and a healthier ecosystem more, I don't think it will take long for good competition to arise, the issue right now is that some people don't care because they don't understand why they should care (these people can be educated) and some people just don't care (not sure what we can do about these people except give them time).

> * The individual (and so also teams of individuals) have never had more powerful technology*

The issue, as always, is relative power—which absolutely skews heavily in Google's favor. Individuals accessing the web today have far less relative power than 25 years ago, even if they can accomplish "more" with less effort.

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