From a technological standpoint, distributed and peer-to-peer technologies are far more efficient than Web 2.0 systems. Making better use of network resources by using the computers and network connections of users, peer-to-peer avoids the bottlenecks created by centralized systems…However, despite the many disadvantages in comparison to P2P, Web 2.0 is more attractive to investors and thus has more money to fund and promote centralized solutions. The end result is that capitalist investment has flowed into centralized solutions, making them easy and cheap or free for non-technical information producers to adopt…
So long as the financing of internet development resources comes from private shareholders looking to capture value by owning internet resources, the network will only become more restricted and centralized…Capital is showing us their vision of the future of the internet, and the future looks a lot like CompuServe: monolithic, centralized, mediated, controllable and exploitable, and naturally, operated by a few large corporations.
Telekommunist Manifesto -http://telekommunisten.net/the-telekommunist-manifesto/ (via stacktivism)