It’s our duty – all of us – to fight for the open web

[Commentary] Closed and proprietary networks and platforms like Facebook and Apple and Amazon are appealing in many ways because they are so easy to use, but in depending on them for so much of our online lives, we give up many of the benefits of the open web.

Here’s what we’re giving up:

• Control over our online identities
• Control over our personal data
• Control over where our content appears