"[...] researchers, scientists and academics across the globe must now consider alternatives to proprietary companies that aim to profit from our writing and offer little transparency as to how our work will be used in the future."
"the site received a hefty amount of criticism due to its emailed queries to scholars asking if they might want to pay a "small fee" in exchange for getting papers "recommended" on the site. In other words, they were offering to signal boost publications in exchange for money."
The internet will be dominated by Google, Amazon and Facebook and will drive rest of the web to extinction. Google no longer is a search company; It is an AI company focussing on giving information and no longer being just a indexer. Amazon will eat up or drive other retailers to extinction. Facebook will take over the social media. https://staltz.com/the-web-began-dying-in-2014-heres-how.html Things like net neutrality will become meaningless. Users will lose all their power and freedom. This is not a what we fought for or want! #netneutrality #internet.