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The Web We Have to Save

The Web We Have to Save

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The rich, diverse, free web that I loved - and spent years in an Iranian jail for - is dying.
Why is nobody stopping it?... The hyperlink was my currency six years ago... represented the open, interconnected spirit of the world wide web ... a way to abandon centralization ... and replace them with something more distributed, a system of nodes and networks. Blogs gave form to that spirit of decentralization: windows into lives you'd rarely know much about; bridges that connected different lives to each other ... cafes where people exchanged diverse ideas on any and every topic... the hyperlink has been devalued, almost made obsolete...[by] ... a philosophy that combined two of the most dominant, and most overrated, values of our times: novelty and popularity.... That philosophy is the Stream... dominates the way people receive information on the web... fed by a never-ending flow of information that's picked for them by complex -and secretive - algorithms...tailor our news feeds with posts... they think we would most likely want to see... vast chunks of the Internet biased against quality ... a deep betrayal to diversity ... When Facebook can know us better than our spouses with 300 likes, the world appears quite predictable, both for governments and for businesses. And predictability means control... [the Web] is rapidly resembling TV: linear, passive, programmed and inward-looking.... . In the past, the web was powerful and serious enough to land me in jail. Today it feels like little more than entertainment." - The Web We Have to Save - Matter - Medium

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