Privatizing the Internet Was a Mistake w/ Ben Tarnoff
Tech Won't Save Us
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The Internet Is a Business
In the book, you write that the internet is broken because the internet is a business. You identify by the root of those problems in the ongoing process of privatization. So long as the internet is owned and run for profit, ordinary people can't have the power to make decisions about how it should be used. As we move up the stack and we talk about the so called platforms, they are entangled with such a wide array of social, financial, legal forces that the consequences are quite various. But even if those deleterious effects were somehow eliminated or mitigated, this fundamental inequality would remain.
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