In the tiered system concocted by Verigle (or Googizon), would the Biggie Blogs and Biggie Businesses be on one internet stream, and the rest of us schlubs on another? Would we be paying even more than we already do to join the top tier? Would this giant new super-company dictate the content of what we see?
Does anyone know?
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lady red - I don't have an answer but I have some perspective.
ReplyDeleteOn the one hand, Verizon et al would love to close off their networks, act as gatekeepers and rent collectors, and charge you for "premium" crap-o-la and gradually choke off everything else.
Will they succeed? I doubt it.
Why?
Because the rest of the web - led by Google - has a different game - figuring out enough about you to sell you stuff.
No way are they going to leave this entirely to the carriers.
Read the entire series in the Wall St Journal about web "privacy". Basically, the web trackers know more about what you're going to buy than you do. I mean that quite literally - in aggregate their guesses about purchases in the next year would likely be more accurate than self-reported forecasts of personal spending.
So basically we have one set of corporate interests looking to separate us from our money more efficiently, keeping at bay another set of corporate interests looking to lock us into a walled garden of crap.
Oh, and why is the WSJ so generously exposing all this info about Google and the online ad industry? Are they angels?
No, they have an angle, too. Rupert Murdoch is in his own war with Google, has a different idea about who should be getting paid (namely, him) and is just firing from his own trench.
Thanks for the insight, lewy. Information is so convoluted these days, and every "news" source puts its own stamp on the pesky details. It makes my head spin.
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