id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt blog-dshr-org-3391 DSHR's Blog: It Isn't About The Technology .html text/html 12595 945 71 They don't point to the rise in payments to the major publishers, the added costs to Universities of dealing with the fragmented system, the highly restrictive licenses that allow "free access" in many cases, the frequency with which author processing charges are paid without resulting in free access, and all the other ills that the "slow AIs" have visited upon scholarly communication in the pursuit of profit growth. What people mean by saying "the Web is centralized" is that it is dominated by a small number of extremely powerful "slow AIs", the FAANGs (Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix, Google) and the big telcos. Ultimately, the goal of this project is to render platforms like Facebook and Twitter as merely "front-end" services that present a user's data, rather than silos for millions of people's personal data. "a court had found Facebook's use of personal data to be illegal because the U.S. social media platform did not adequately secure the informed consent of its users. ./cache/blog-dshr-org-3391.html ./txt/blog-dshr-org-3391.txt