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Open Web is truly dead. It's such a shame too. Learning other people's view, even if you don't agree with them is an important part growing.

I have to say, I am quite resentful of people now. Because there was such amazing tool that you could learn other people's view and thoughts and a handful of loud mouths killed it.

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Why would it be dead, if you can find the missing episodes on the Open Web?

Also, why would a content service policing its own content be in any way related to "The Open Web"?

Now if the domain providers, ICANN, ISPs, or any such internet utility entities would be actively doing this, that'd be a story about the web openness. Not a large streaming service deciding what to stream. Joe himself sold out to this entity knowing about this precise outcome. This has nothing to do with the web itself.

It only dies if we surround ourselves in walled gardens, and fail to build the platforms that incentivize open inquiry. We've traded so much for the convenience of not doing it ourselves. As long as one hyperlinked document remains at the far reaches of a TCP/IP network, the Web still lives. The content you're seeking is out there, and the audience for the unconventional is growing.

We can easily find these deleted episodes hosted elsewhere on the web. Legally? Maybe not, but they're still out there on the open web, and so are similar views and statements to those that Spotify opted not to host.

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