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Internet for the People - The Fight for Our Digital Future (Hardcover)
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Internet for the People - The Fight for Our Digital Future (Hardcover)
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In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers
an answer. The internet is broken, he argues, because it is owned
by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your
privacy and 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, and 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, and not
profit, rule. It calls for shrinking the space of the market and
diminishing the power of the profit motive. It calls for abolishing
the walled gardens of Google, Facebook, and the other giants that
dominate our digital lives and developing publicly and
cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic
control. To build a better internet, we need to change how it is
owned and 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 and investors will continue to make choices on
everyone's behalf, and 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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