SMRTR TechMay 3, 2026Hacker News

We Need to Rewild the Internet

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The internet, once a diverse and open network, has been captured by a handful of tech giants — Google, Apple, Amazon, Microsoft — creating a dangerous monoculture similar to the catastrophic single-species forests of 18th-century Prussia. Like those forests, today's centralized internet is fragile and extractive. The solution proposed: rewild it, restoring diversity, competition, and resilience.

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