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Why Is The Internet So Broken? What Would a "People's Internet" Look Like? (w/ Ben Tarnoff)
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Why Is The Internet So Broken? What Would a "People's Internet" Look Like? (w/ Ben Tarnoff)
FromCurrent Affairs
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Length:
41 minutes
Released:
Nov 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
Description
Ben Tarnoff is the author of Internet For The People: The Fight For Our Digital Future. Today he joins to discuss what's wrong with the internet and how we fix it. Ben helps us to think more clearly about how the ownership of the underlying infrastructure of the internet affects our experiences—not just platforms like Facebook and Twitter but the "pipes." Ben takes us through the history of how the internet began as a public infrastructure project and gradually became privatized and shows us what the consequences of that privatization have been. He then helps us think through a vision for what a very different internet—one that operated in the interests of the people rather than for profit—would look like. "The profit motive is programmed into every layer of the network." — Ben Tarnoff
Released:
Nov 1, 2023
Format:
Podcast episode
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