Mallory Knodel

Mallory Knodel, Executive Director of the Social Web Foundation, and Burcu Kilic, Senior Fellow at CIGI, dive into the decline of the open internet. They trace the erosion back to the 1990s, blaming it on laissez-faire policies that favored Big Tech's consolidation. The conversation highlights the misleading use of 'open' by corporations, the failures of regulations like GDPR, and warns about AI reinforcing centralization. They advocate for stronger antitrust actions and the creation of public digital alternatives to revitalize true openness in technology.