Guess what sir/madam? when I started using the net, there was plenty of great content on bulletin boards and on usenet. And when the WWW started up, there was plenty more great content. SHARED. Eminently affordable. And very, very social. People talking to people, with no overseer/exploiter in between.

> publishers want to provide equal and easy access

What they want is money. 'Content' is what they've got to sell. And they hire pros to jazz it up and fluff it up, never mind reality or reason.

You're never going to convince me that the commercialization and infiltration of interpersonal communications is an improvement. (Except for snoopers and exploiters.) And I'm very sure that I'm in the majority on that one.

If it were up to me I'd limit all the advertisers to one TLD: .stripmall . And then avoiding all the B.S. would be REAL easy. All the 'news' websites that scrape their content would be there.