The internet is entangled with so many other aspects of our every day life. It's so integrated into nearly everything that we do at this point that it's hard to say where it starts and where it ends, actually. I mean, the internet was not always ever very thing in everywhere. So that's an, maybe we should feel nestalgic for those limits, frankly. But you know, that's actually a fairly recent chapter in its historyThat the internet has come to subsume so many forms of human experience, absolutely.
Paris Marx is joined by Ben Tarnoff to discuss why the problems with the modern internet, including its excessive concentration in the hands of a few companies and the way its dominant firms shape our interactions to generate profit, find their root in the decision to privatize the network. To fix them, that needs to be changed.
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future and the co-founder of Logic Magazine. Follow Ben on Twitter at @bentarnoff.
Tech Won’t Save Us offers a critical perspective on tech, its worldview, and wider society with the goal of inspiring people to demand better tech and a better world. Follow the podcast (@techwontsaveus) and host Paris Marx (@parismarx) on Twitter, and support the show on Patreon.
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