R. S. Doiel personal blog

A simple web we own

rsdoiel.github.io published 2026-02-2129 min read

Today, the Web and Internet are owned and controlled by large for-profit corporations and a few governments 1 . Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification 2 .

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