Then and Now: How Capitalism Stole the InternetArchived Message
Posted by sinister burt on December 21, 2022, 9:13 pm
This was a quite interesting doc, and nicely produced. I fell asleep and didn't watch the end yet though so not sure where it ended up.
"I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft's antitrust court case and their battle against Open Source and Free Software, Bill Gate's Open Letter to Hobbyists and the leaked Halloween Documents. Then we take a look at the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism, and how platforms like AirBnb & Uber coopt the idea of the community and lobby politicians. Finally, we take a look at some alternatives."