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Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future
Ben TarnoffThe internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned by private firms & run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy & Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn't always like this - it had to be remade for the purposes of profit maximization, through a years-long process of privatization that turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, & which set in motion the crises that consume it today.
The solution to those crises is straightforward: deprivatize the internet. Deprivatization aims at creating an internet where people, & not profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market & diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, & the other giants that dominate our digital lives & developing publicly & cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control.
To build a better internet, we need to change how it is owned & organized. Not with an eye towards making markets work better, but towards making them less dominant. Not in order to create a more competitive or more rule-bound version of privatization, but to overturn it. Otherwise, a small number of executives & investors will continue to make choices on everyone’s behalf, & these choices will remain tightly bound by the demands of the market. It's time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now.
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