The current one is almost certainly going to be tiered so that big corporations with rubbish content can muscle out indivudually run sites with better content. The egalitarian principles on which is was founded are being thrown out the window so there will be little point to it.

You've got to understand that the powers that be view the internet simply as a means to sell us loads of useless crap. The whole global-community-where-everyone-has-a-voice thing is just an annoying side effect for them.

Now, we might need some nodes in Beligum. Are you in or not?

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"I worry that, especially as the Millennium edges nearer, pseudo-science and superstition will seem year by year more tempting, the siren song of unreason more sonorous and attractive." - Carl Sagan, 1995