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The open Web does not really exist anymore, and may never have existed in the first place.
Their wordsthere's no such thing anymore -- not sure there ever really was, to be quite honest.
Their wordsthat's one of the problems with "open" -- it's mostly just been a ruse to extract value from people and to undermine the labor of artists and writers.
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