txt: Big change in the tech world – Dave Winer www.scripting.com
Think about how you’re treated by airlines. By insurance companies. If you have to go to a hospital. That’s the kind of relationship you have with Apple, Google, Amazon, Facebook, Microsoft, Oracle, IBM, etc. Sooner or later there will be a massive oil spill or a massive network-wide security breach. Expect these companies to be every bit as bad as the ones in other industries. Probably worse because they’ve come so far without much oversight or scrutiny. Recently Google was given permission to trade energy. Who are these companies? We have no idea.
If you want to know what you can do, great — there are things you can do. Buy your own services and put your content in places where you are treated like a customer with rights that are respected. That’s still possible. In many industries it’s no longer possible, but you can get that kind of service on the Internet now, but you have to pay for it.
