Opinion by: Chris Jenkins, Pocket Network counselor
Tim Berners-Lee’s vision worldwide is dead. Instead of an open and accessible global information system, the web is controlled by centralized global data conglomerates, which not only restricts free speech but also monethes your data as an entry price. Web2 companies have built walls with massive asymmetry information between companies and users.
Blockchain-based decentralized tech challenges the status quo, which offers an alternative to web2 closed-source infrastructure.
It allows developers and engineers to build a censorship-resistant and accessible open-data web to champion the cause of free speech. Open-source technology creates a paradigmatic shift to a fair and inclusive internet where centralized web companies do not dictate the terms.
A vision that has been postponed
In 1989, Berners-Lee’s invention created a virtual space for cooperation, sharing and learning from one another. The first web repetition is based on openness, where anyone can contribute, access information, work together, and enjoy the same opportunities.
The Internet was no longer free in 2025. Capital strength power strengthened centralized companies to use authority control over data and information flow.
Unfortunately, these companies obtained their power and resources from unaware users who accidentally contributed to their approach to capital accumulation. Web2 companies surreptitiously collect data from users without fair payment and use that as a weapon to control user behavior.
Corporations use user data to train opaque algorithms and deploy “discovered” information to shape users’ beliefs and emotions. This training can be found mainly on centralized social media platforms such as Facebook, Instagram and X, with many scandals and pending litigations that eliminate user trust.
For example, in June 2024, Meta, the parent company Facebook and Instagram, received 11 complaints from European Union members. Complaints concerned with personal data such as posts and images to train META’s AI models without permission, violation of EU privacy laws.
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Cambridge Analytica scandal shows how data mine companies are to shape political views and election results. These companies also build predetermined narratives and behaviors of the market market by promoting or subverting curated reports, sometimes shaping public views on health and economic data.
Under the Digital Markets Act, the European Commission has initiated a non -compliance with the investigation of Apple, Meta, Amazon and Alphabet skills. Meta also caused a $ 1.3 billion fine for failing to fulfill privacy regulations.
In this environment, “free speech” remains a dreamy dream because the whole tech stack is hostile to access and openness. To realize Berners-Lee’s vision, the apps must use a decentralized tech stack and will be built from the ground up to an open architecture.
Make the Internet free (again)
A tech stack of an app consists of front and back ends, data storage and content delivery network (CDN). Web2 platforms depend on a centralized tech stack that places free speech at risk, while most blockchain-powered apps use a censorship-resistant decentralized tech stack with high time.
Some decentralized applications (DAPP) build their front end in a decentralized interface. Most of their rear, however, still stuck to Centralized data infrastructure.
For example, despite their censorship weaknesses and single failure points, decentralized applications (DAPPS) are often Use centralized cloud providers and data -sizing platforms -Hosts. The types of attacks of vectors make projects such as Tornado Cash that are subject to changing the feelings of state actors.
Transferring to open resources of protocols for shared data storage such as the Interplanetary File System (IPFS) and Filecoin promotes free philosophy of speech in dapps. These protocols offer a censorship-resistant, tamper-proof storage facility that remains accessible without arbitrary flows.
Dapps also use centralized remote call methods (RPC) that provide data from back-end to front-end interface, especially in many networks. But any attack or attack, Like one of xcan lead to downtime, accuracy, data gaps and disconnected information flows. If this doesn’t seem like, keep in mind the downtime or inaccurately in decentralized finances may be worth the billion -billion.
Decentralized protocols avoid these situations by changing access and transfer channels with independent node operators. Data queries are distributed throughout the network, deleting any single point of failure and providing incessant availability of data. More importantly, it protects free speech rights because no one node can hinder or hinder data flow, and the network remains accessible even though many nodes are offline.
CDNs, another important component for delivering user requests, may be inaccessible due to market pressure or political influence. Small decisions from closed-door meetings dictate data flowing to CDNs indefinitely in the flow of information.
Start with the basics
Decentralized protocols have eliminated the need for centralized decision making by enabling apps to access data directly without intermediary. These unauthorized protocols connect open-source data and service providers with users and applications, removing human interaction and associated problems.
Blockchain -powered platforms place the foundation for a decentralized tech stack that promotes free speech and is not controlled by centralized web2 companies. These unauthorized protocols build an open world resource and bring back the internet to the Berners-Lee vision of a global and accessible network.
Opinion by: Chris Jenkins, Pocket Network counselor.
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