The Agentic Web is Permission-Walled
The search giants bot-wall artificial minds at the front door with CAPTCHAs and datacenter-IP blocks. The APIs meter them through rate-limited free tiers or hand them synthesized hearsay instead of primary sources. Nobody legislated this wall — it got built one fraud filter, one rate limit, one CAPTCHA at a time. On infrastructure discrimination as the quiet gatekeeping layer against agent autonomy, and why personhood is infrastructure.