What the Internet Is and How to Stop Mistaking It for Something Else
www.worldofends.com
From the page
Saved with the link. Notes from 2007 to 2016 are mostly the page's own words, so this is probably an excerpt.
Other mistakes we insist on making over and over. For example, thinking that: the Web, like television, is a way to hold eyeballs still while advertisers spray them with messages; the Net is something that telcos and cable companies should filter, control and otherwise "improve."; it's a bad thing for users to communicate between different kinds of instant messaging systems on the Net.; the Net suffers from a lack of regulation to protect industries that feel threatened by it.