On: The Internet is a surveillance state

[goldfeld]

Exactly. When every other startup relies on ad revenue, they're nothing but furthering the goals of big corporations and big media.

[pyre → goldfeld]

While I do believe that all of the reliance on ad revenue contributes to the "Internet surveillance state," I wouldn't exactly say that the newspaper industry would agree that ad-supported blogs are 'furthering their goals.' I think that many big newspapers would disagree with you there.