Internet Oligarchs and AI Slop: Why the Web Needs a Rebuild

Tech billionaires have transformed the internet from a democratic public square into a controlled extraction machine, filling it with low-quality AI-generated content and exacerbating humanity's worst impulses—prompting calls for radical decentralization. The internet, once hailed as a tool for liberation and connection, has evolved into something fundamentally different. What began with optimism about competition and open markets has instead produced concentrated control by fewer than 20 tech families, according to media analysis of digital power structures. Companies like Meta, Amazon, OpenAI, and Alphabet now collectively wield more infrastructural control than most governments, with data center projects consuming electricity equivalent to Canada's entire consumption by 2030.