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There should be, but there won't be, at least not anytime soon. This is still the wild west. Google is the corrupt sheriff whose task is to keep the place relatively safe and productive and is politically clear to enrich himself by his position, as no one else is going to pay him and no one important cares.

Give it another fifty years and the web will finish civilizing.



Does “civilizing” mean “entirely taken over by feudal lords instead of just mostly”?


The judiciary is quite literally the outcome of a feudal society (courts?), but that doesn't mean that civilized societies don't benefit from establishing rule of law.

In fact, the absense of laws just means that some random individual can and will have power over you without you having any say on the matter.


I chose to see that positively. In 50 years the Web has civilised into something that is not run by a big company and governed by sane rules.


> Give it another fifty years

I see you have not been following the CO2 news.




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