Companies having a monopoly over access to the internet doesn’t change the fact that the Internet as a whole is decentralized.
That being said, yes, something should be done about ISPs.
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itslilith@lemmy.blahaj.zone 4 months agoNot nearly as much as it should be. In many places certain ISPs have near monopolies over internet access, and domains and dns used on the web are managed by ICANN. Sure, there’s alternatives to that, but barely anyone knows or uses them
PHLAK@lemmy.world 4 months ago
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 months ago
Not to mention things like Cloudflare, AWS, and GCP.
PHLAK@lemmy.world 4 months ago
I understand what you’re saying but it feels wrong to lump Cloudflare in with Google and Amazon. Clouflare, thus far anyway, has been mostly a force of good for the internet.
admin@lemmy.my-box.dev 4 months ago
So was Google in its first decade or so. Hell, I’ll even grant that AWS, GCP and k8s have been mostly benevolent. But these parties becoming near monopolies for hosting or routing is costing a price of centralization.