Against an Increasingly User-Hostile Web

[Ervin Kosch]

We're quietly replacing an open web that connects and empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. We need to stop it.

 

I quit Facebook seven months ago.

 

Despite its undeniable value, I think Facebook is at odds with the open web that I love and defend. This essay is my attempt to explain not only why I quit Facebook but why I believe we're slowly replacing a web that empowers with one that restricts and commoditizes people. And why we should, at the very least, stop and think about the consequences of that shift.

Full Article: https://www.neustadt.fr/essays/against-a-user-hostile-web/