This TED Talk features web builder, Thomas Koshish, recorded live at TED Salon, Samsung, 2018.

Three years ago, I started building a decentralized web because I was worried about the future of our internet.

The current internet we all use is about gatekeepers. If you want to read something on the web,

then you need to go through multiple middlemen.

First, a domain name reserver,

then a server hosting company,

which usually points you to a third party to a web hosting service.

And this happens every time you want to reach a website on the web.

But these gatekeepers are vulnerable to internet attacks and also makes the censorship and the surveillance easier.

And the situation is getting worse.

Everything moving to the cloud, where the data is hosted by giant corporations. This move creates much, much more powerful modern man.

Now, move to the cloud makes sense because this way it's easier and cheaper for the developers and the service operators.

They don't have to worry about maintaining the physical servers.

I can't blame them, but I found this trend to be very dangerous,

because this way these giant corporations has unlimited control over the hosted services.

And it's very easy to abuse this power.

For example, last year, a CEO of a company that acts as a gatekeeper for 9 million websites

decided after some public pressure that one of the sites it manages,

a far-right page should be blocked.

He then sent an internal email to his coworkers.

This was an arbitrary decision.

I woke up this morning in a bad mood and decided to kick them off the

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