Jonathan Tepper: The internet was meant to be open, free, and decentralized, but today it is controlled by a few companies with grave consequences for society and the economy. ... The great hope of an open and free internet has given way to a dystopia where a few big companies control what we see, how we communicate, and what we can say online. ... Although the architecture of the internet is still decentralized, the ecosystem of the World Wide Web is not. A few giant companies have near-monopolistic control of traffic, personal data, commerce, and the flow of information. ... Before 2014, traffic to websites came from many sources, and the web was a lively ecosystem. But beginning in 2014, more than half of all traffic began coming from just two sources: Facebook and Google. Today, over 70 percent of traffic is dominated by those two platforms. wordsmith.social/protestation/…