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date: '2018-06-23'
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title: Silos and centralization on the internet
tags: ['politics']
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**[Techdirt:](https://www.techdirt.com/articles/20180608/17022739996/silos-centralization-censorship-losing-promise-internet.shtml)**

> For years, we've been saying that it's time for us to rethink the internet, and move back towards a more decentralized, distributed world in which this kind of censorship isn't even an issue. It hasn't happened yet, but it feels like we're increasingly moving towards a world in which that's going to be necessary if we want to retain what is best about the internet.<!-- excerpt -->
