note: There is likely to be a lot of typos and poor grammer, this post it yet to be proofread.

Introduction

For this project I had two main questions in mind the two questions were:

Before conducting conducting my research, my understand was that large megacopany like Google, Microsoft, Amazon own and controll a large large majority of the internet through hosting, market share and capital. And regarding the second question I've always felt that the future relies on open source software, and publicly maintained networks, where we can audit and watch what happens to our data.

This project will be broken into two parts. One is a selection of hopefully two posters, that condenses some information that are easy to share, and the other half is a quick written discussing the some additional research and sources. Both of the posters where made in Penpot, and the rest was written by me. Sources and Citations are again at the bottom. ☺

Digital Posters

Discussion

This will just be an expansion from the posters. So from my research I was actually suprised that the both the maket share for cloud services, and ISP subcriptions has the top three only control about 60%. still this is a very large and alarming percent.

The reason that IPS and the number of options matter is closer to econmics and digital access. Then a monopoly is form, the corporation have a much higher control of the pricing, this means that cost of internet is largely influence by these large corporations. Still the government also plays a huge part and advocating for price ranges or providing alternative. for people in rural areas we can see how the governemnet can help remove these barrier. In the further reading there is a good article on the internet company monopolies with a good example on the people from Coachella, California.

On top of affecting who get access to the internet these company will tend to act with their best financial interest in mind. This means that privacy and what is done with our data, rest on the hands of these large companies. However it's important to realize that was is done with our consent, WE have become more and more compliacent with the amount of data we feed into internet and we know for the most part that they will try and use that for their benefit.

I also think we have fallen victim to paying and using software and programs that often use anti-consumer practices. This is were I believe supporting open source projects, and software is important. These softwares are maintianed by the community, and by nature open. This means that we have a bigger say in that get changes but also in what happeneds with the data we share or input. now there are some cases in which open source is not the best option, and even if you are happy to continue supporting large companies for the benefits you still stand to benefit from a strong open source competition.

Okay some final words. We need to try and regain more control over how we can access the internet, as well as who supports the cloud services and hosting, in order to have more control of our data. We need to make an effort to make the internet a more personal space, and promote project that compete with large industry standards and large corporations.

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Bibliography

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Afterword / Further Reading

First thing I want to say is thank you again for reading all this ☺. I really want to continue working on this aswell, but it might have to wait. Below I want to put some of the additional articles I know or didn't get to completely read or list. also some additional resources. oh and last thing. I made all the posters on Penpot and this website is hosted on Neocities. YAY.