Thanks Anil, You made my day with such an article. We bought our first computer in 1998 when I was 44 when living in Santa Cruz, Ca, are technologically uneducated teaching ourselves how the internet could enhance our small Manila and Boracay Island businesses in the Philippines. I was able to get our home made website on google and yahoo’s search engine’s first pages free of charge by 2000–2001 and followed the lives and speeches of a few of the top leaders in the industry with their “change the world” idealism. Within less than 5 years the on-line internet agents buried “us” and our small businesses back to the 5th to 10th search engine pages’ more or less forcing us to register our businesses with them paying them 10% and within the next 10 years from 2004 to 2014 after these tech entrepreneur founders involved in the travel industry had sold to major mega multi-national corporations their dominance increased commissions to 12%, to 15% up to 17% to 20%. We have resisted paying them all along the way but technology corporations are dominating powers, much like most federal governments impossible to beat so small business entrepreneurs like us and consumers alike have no choice to allow one to put their hands in our left pocket and allow the other to out their hands in our right pocket. And only a massive boycott by the public will be able to change anything; like I’ve always said to myself, when I don’t approve of something, someone or any organization forget about fighting or debating with them just don’t give them money. Thanks so much for explaining the details in a way I could understand

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