An answer to an increasingly centralized internet- SHARING IS CARING.

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An answer to an increasingly centralized internet- SHARING IS CARING.

The Problem: Companies such as Amazon or Google consolidating services for storing, hosting, and displaying websites such as Amazon Web Services and Google Amp. Eventually, most websites will be hosted on Amazon’s servers or displayed on mobile with Google Amp. This is a problem handing so much control to one company and trusting that their services will never go down. When it does…. it has large rippling effects as most websites or Internet of Things services will and have gone down.

It’s also important for anti-censorship and privacy reasons that we move to a distributed, decentralized network that can’t be compromised at a single point of attack. Imagine a world where your personal information including social security numbers, credit card info, banking info, personal/shopping habits, and more could not be compromised from a company or state government’s lax security services.

Does Amazon control the Internet, or does it just feel that way?

A Solution: Decentralized, sharing economy. If you own something someone else needs, you can rent it to them at a competitive price. A car, a bike, some computer storage space, extra processing power when you aren’t using your computer… etc. Read more on how the internet is accomplishing that with blockchain and other methods of distributed peer to peer networks.

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