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Content creators don't want the Semantic Web because it makes scraping their content easier. For example, there is a standard format for recipes. But most recipe web sites don't use it because they want everyone to read their web site and click on ads.

https://schema.org/Recipe

In order to enable the Semantic Web someone first needs to solve the IP licensing and payment problem. The friction is a huge problem because each little chunk of content has such low value to each consumer.



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