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Who owns the internet?

New Economics Podcast

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Do You Know Who Owns the Google and Facebook Ad Meta?

i think there is this real danger here of assuming that they're offering free services, and therefore we don't have any right or any sayn how they might be used. Both facebook and google are operating extremely extractive business models in which they are crowd fleecing their billions of users to generate profits for shareholders. What would a kind of democratic facebook look like? How could we have public conversations about sorting and ranking algaritms? How couldWe make them subject to democratic control, to a vote, to deliberation? Perhaps, you know, a small, miny public of citizens could assess the kinds of structures that are in place, what kinds of algorithms thay are used

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