The Tescoisation of the Internet
Like a good capitalist, I would not ban the Google tescoisation of the internet, but one can't help feeling that the big corporations are squeezing out the little guys. Just as most of us now buy our food from Tesco, so it looks like that any good Internet site will be snaffled up by one of the big guys. If these huge corporate organisations believed in the open society and free trade that would be a good thing. But too often companies like Google seek short term profit at the expense of circumscribing real freedom. Hence their operation in China. Whilst the You Tube founders will be very happy and deserve their success, will the rest of us be better off? Roll on the new independents who set up You Tube 2.
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