The argument: The evolution of the internet as a medium makes stricter regulation of online behavior inevitable" The article traces the history of the web through five phases, the last of which depicts "digital platforms as proxies for state control through social scoring." But how inevitable is this? The turning point is the transition from 3.0 to 4.0 - that is, from "algorithms and digital platforms" to "platforms' political compliance and the restoration of corporate control". That happens only if we continue down the route of platforms, both in educational technology and online community generally. But there has been a lot of resistance to this.
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