For months, Google has maintained that the web is “thriving,” AI isn’t tanking traffic, and its search engine is sending people to a wider variety of websites than ever. But in a court filing from last week, Google admitted that “the open web is already in rapid decline” (with regard to advertising, kinda-sorta)

  • Hikki88@lemmy.dbzer0.com
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    5 hours ago

    That doesn’t undermine my argument that it was ultimately because of the capitalists that the internet spread in the first place.

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      4 hours ago

      It does undermine your argument though, because you are saying that it only spread because of capitalists. I’m telling you it spread because of government funding and capitalists were just the medium by which the funding was used. The capitalist part is replaceable and unnecessary.