Internet for the People: The Fight for Our Digital Future

The internet is broken because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. This has led to privacy concerns and right-wing propaganda. The solution is to deprivatize the internet, creating an internet where people, and not profit, rule. This calls for shrinking the space of the market and diminishing the power of the profit motive, and developing publicly and cooperatively owned alternatives that encode real democratic control.

Format: Hardback
Length: 272 pages
Publication date: 14 June 2022
Publisher: Verso Books

The internet, once a platform for free expression and connectivity, has become a victim of corporate greed and control. Leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff argues that the internet is broken because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Companies like Google and Facebook exploit users' privacy and spread right-wing propaganda for their own financial gain. This privatization of the internet, which began in the 1990s, has led to the concentration of power in the hands of a few giant corporations.

Tarnoff's book, "Internet for the People," explores the history of the privatization of the internet and its impact on society. He argues that the internet was created for the purposes of profit maximization, and that this has led to a crisis of democracy and privacy. The book highlights the ways in which the market has dominated our digital lives, and how this has led to the erosion of our rights and freedoms.

To address these crises, Tarnoff advocates for the deprivatization of the internet. Deprivatization aims to create an internet where people, 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 is time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now. We need to take back control of our digital lives and create a platform that is free from corporate greed and control. We need to develop technologies that prioritize privacy and security, and that give users the power to control their own data. We need to create a network that is open and accessible to all, and that is not dominated by a few giant corporations.

The deprivatization of the internet is not an easy task, but it is necessary if we want to create a better future for ourselves and for generations to come. We need to be willing to challenge the status quo
The internet, once a platform for free expression and connectivity, has become a victim of corporate greed and control. Leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff argues that the internet is broken because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Companies like Google and Facebook exploit users' privacy and spread right-wing propaganda for their own financial gain. This privatization of the internet, which began in the 1990s, has led to the concentration of power in the hands of a few giant corporations.

Tarnoff's book, "Internet for the People," explores the history of the privatization of the internet and its impact on society. He argues that the internet was created for the purposes of profit maximization, and that this has led to a crisis of democracy and privacy. The book highlights the ways in which the market has dominated our digital lives, and how this has led to the erosion of our rights and freedoms.

To address these crises, Tarnoff advocates for the deprivatization of the internet. Deprivatization aims to create an internet where people, 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 format 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 is time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now. We need to take back control of our digital lives and create a platform that is free from corporate greed and control. We need to develop technologies that prioritize privacy and security, and that give users the power to control their own data. We need to create a network that is open and accessible to all, and that is not dominated by a few giant corporations.

The deprivatization of the internet is not an easy task, but it is necessary if we want to create a better future for ourselves and for generations to come. We need to be willing to challenge the status quo
The internet, once a platform for free expression and connectivity, has become a victim of corporate greed and control. Leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff argues that the internet is broken because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Companies like Google and Facebook exploit users' privacy and spread right format right-wing propaganda for their own financial gain. This privatization of the internet, which began in the 1990s, has led to the concentration of power in the hands of a few giant corporations.

Tarnoff's book, "Internet for the People," explores the history of the privatization of the internet and its impact on society. He argues that the internet was created for the purposes of profit maximization, and that this has led to a crisis of democracy and privacy. The book highlights the ways in which the market has dominated our digital lives, and how this has led to the erosion of our rights and freedoms.

To address these crises, Tarnoff advocates for the deprivatization of the internet. Deprivatization aims to create an internet where people, 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. format 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 is time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now. We need to take back control of our digital lives and create a platform that is free from corporate greed and control. We need to develop technologies that prioritize privacy and security, and that give users the power to control their own data. We need to create a network that is open and accessible to all, and that is not dominated by a few giant corporations.

The deprivatization of the internet is not an easy task, but it is necessary if we want to create a better future for ourselves and for generations to come. We need to be willing to challenge the status quo
The internet, once a platform for free expression and connectivity, has become a victim of corporate greed and control. Leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff argues that the internet is broken because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Companies like Google and Facebook exploit users' privacy and spread right-wing propaganda for their own financial gain. This privatization of the internet, which began in the 1990s, has led to the concentration of power in the hands of a few giant corporations.

Tarnoff's book, "Internet for the People," explores the history of the privatization of the internet and its impact on society. He argues that the internet was created for the purposes of profit maximization, and that this has led to a crisis of democracy and privacy. The book highlights the ways in which the market has dominated our digital lives, and how this has led to the erosion of our rights and freedoms.

To address these crises, Tarnoff advocates for the deprivatization of the internet. Deprivatization aims to create an internet where people, 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 is time to demand an internet by, and for, the people now. We need to take back control of our digital lives and create a platform that is free from corporate greed and control. We need to develop technologies that prioritize privacy and security, and that give users the power to control their own data. We need to create a network that is open and accessible to all, and that is not dominated by a few giant corporations.

The deprivatization of the internet is not an easy task, but it is necessary if we want to create a better future for ourselves and for generations to come. We need to be willing to challenge the status quo.

Weight: 358g
Dimension: 147 x 218 x 24 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9781839762024