If you want to understand how and why we have managed to completely corrupt the original excellent vision and architecture of the Internet, and why Facebook and Google are manifestations of the catastrophe that started with Microsoft, watch this talk delivered about a year ago by Eben Moglen to the New York chapter of the Internet Society.
Eben Moglen is a Columbia University law professor, a longtime advocate of free software, Richard Stallman’s attorney, and the leader of the FreedomBox Foundation.
The Q & A session after the talk is a separate video.