How GDCSS sees the limitations of the internet
The Original Internet Design
Reports suggest that Tim Berners-Lee Initially designed the web more as a decentralized ecosystem than what it currently is. While it certainly has undergone a significant centralization in recent years, Lee gave the Web a decentralized design so that no person or organization can control or limit what others can say.
He never intended to control his own invention and when CERN released the software openly in 1993, the unprecedented openness inspired large-scale permissionless innovation and unbounded creativity, provided a voice to more than half of the world’s population, and revolutionized communication, education, and business.
The evolved Web is not designed for Decentralization
A severe consequence of this unobstructed facility is that anyone can even create things that go against the spirit of the Web, such as illegal materials and — ironically — platforms whose primary goal is centralization.
The challenges with the internet in its current form include taking back control of our personal data, preventing the spread of misinformation, and realizing transparency for political advertising. The control a big few companies have over the internet has reached alarming proportions.
Over 60% internet & cloud storage is controlled by major corporations
Just to get an idea of how big this market is, try to reel in these numbers — cloud infrastructure services brought in a total of $37 billion in the last quarter of 2020. That is a $4 billion jump from the previous quarter.
According to data collected by the Synergy Research Group, four companies own 67% of the world’s $130 billion cloud market. These companies have firm control over the vast majority of the internet because all our data on everyday services and apps are saved on the cloud. IBM Cloud, Salesforce, Tencent Cloud, and Oracle Cloud only make up 12% of the market combined.
Leading the pack by a large margin is Amazon Web Services, which enjoys a whopping 32% market share against the competition. This is followed by the 20% share enjoyed by Microsoft’s Azure infrastructure. So, these two companies alone make up 52% of the market. If we want big tech to have less control over our daily lives, maybe we should start worrying about the stranglehold these few companies have over our data.
Google Cloud is next at 9% and Alibaba Cloud at 6% which along with the 1st two owns over half of the overall market.
The Internet is not secure — for a reason
According to online security expert Bruce Schneier Google, Facebook, Amazon, and others make their profits in two main ways: by collecting as much data as possible from us and by controlling what we pay for. And that is dependent on a vulnerable internet.
Google and Facebook for example are willing to give you security as long as they can surveil you and use the information it collects to sell ads and monitor everything you do for marketing purposes. When malpractices are exposed, these companies often provide opt-outs. But we don’t really know what they do after the opt-out and not much we can do about it either. And it's almost impossible to know if user data is being misused or not.
In short, all these companies want you to have security, except them.
BLOCKCHAIN could be the answer

Blockchain here could be a game-changer in the sense that it could make the internet safer, fairer, and more creative. By means such as verifiable digital user identity, smarter use of OTP’s, internet voting systems and zero user data selling blockchain could make the internet a much more secure and safer place for everyone.
Source material:
https://www.pcmag.com/news/four-companies-control-67-of-the-worlds-cloud-infrastructure
https://ideas.ted.com/why-an-insecure-internet-is-actually-in-tech-companies-best-interests/
https://www.webroot.com/us/en/resources/tips-articles/computer-security-threats-hackers
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