Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant
The web is slow-motion collapsing for multiple reasons, but at the heart of it all is a little-known system: the search/browser levy. Designed to fund browsers by taxing search engine revenue, it does put high-quality browsers in the hands of billions free of charge — at the steep cost of an artificial search monopoly, a monoculture that disorganises our shared information space, and the defunding of the rest of the web, notably news media.
We need not eliminate the levy; we can reform it so that it works for the web and the people who use it. Funding The Web: From Cartel to Covenant documents the system and lays out a full toolbox of solutions. Read it at ftw.fund.
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With: Robin Berjon