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A people-owned internet exists. Here is what it looks like | Nathan Schneider

The future of the internet is in peril, thanks to surveillance, net neutrality and other assaults. But there are communities that are building their own
Protesters hold a rally to support 'net neutrality' and urge the Federal Communications Commission (FCC) to reject a proposal that would allow Internet service providers such as AT&T and Verizon 'to boost their revenue by creating speedy online lanes for deep-pocketed websites and applications and slowing down everyone else,' on May 15, 2014 at the FCC in Washington, DC. The FCC commissioners voted on a proposal for protecting an open Internet. AFP PHOTO / Karen BLEIER / Getty Images

Like many Americans, I don’t have a choice about my internet service provider. I live in a subsidized housing development where there’s only one option, and it happens to be, by some accounts, the most hated company in the United States.

Like its monstrous peers, my provider is that Congress has recently permitted it to spy on me. Although it to support the overwhelming majority of the country’s population who support net neutrality, it has been trying to bury the principle of an open internet for years and, under Trump’s Federal Communications

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