"Meanwhile, Internet progenitors like Vint Cerf, Brewster Kahle, and Tim Berners-Lee are trying to re-decentralize the Web.
They respond to the rise of surveillance-based platform monopolies by simply redoubling their efforts to develop new and better decentralizing technologies.
They seem not to notice the pattern: decentralized technology alone does not guarantee decentralized outcomes.
When centralization arises elsewhere in an apparently decentralized system, it comes as a surprise or simply goes ignored."
- story by Nathan Schneider
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