What should the future of the web be?

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Sir Tim Berners Lee has received a lifetime achievement award. What should the future of the web be?

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[NecroCommie]

Net should have more pirates than the caribian in the 1600's. I would like that. Secondly all corporations should leave and let the internet be. Individual persons and non-profiteering citizen organizations should be the only ones with allowed internet acces.

[The Author]

I say do away with all the advertising and make the web what it was supposed to be to begin with: a free informational forum. How many times I encountered websites which demanded I buy something in return for information. I can't read an article without subscribing to some periodical for a fee. I can't read a book whose copyright has expired unless it's for a price. And if a book does have a copyright, well, fuck the copyright laws. I'm not stealing anything, I'm only reading. Instead of an Internet where I actually get real information, I get piecemeal garbage written by hacks and thousands of websites demanding payment.

I would like private interests to leave the Internet alone, instead of turning it into some kind of cybermarket.

[NecroCommie]

Agreed.

It is disgusting how the capitalists try to squeeze every God damn fucking penny out of us. When people does something regardless of the capital, the capitalists come, pervert the invention and declare how the glorious capitalism has yet again invented something great.

And then there are the people who take this kind of shit seriously... :glare:

[Jimmie Higgins]

Dave Chappelle was right in his skit about what the internet would be like if it was a real place: Las Vegas meets old school dirty times square in NYC full of advertising and porn.

The key to a modern revolution: bread/peace/no internet spam.

The internet solves so many distribution problems and after the revolution everyone could have a laptop/tablet/smart phone and the internet wouldn't have to be restrictive, so all the music/movies/text/games ever made could be free and available at the touch of a button.

Immediately after the revolution: free everything on itunes and amazon.com and the end of spam! These features of a modern revolution alone will probably keep most of the professional class from supporting a counter revolution.