2024/05/02

Tech Critic Makes the Case for the Splinternet

“It’s time to reject the neoliberal consensus that’s dominated the internet and create public bodies whose job it is to develop technology in the public interest—not to serve founders or shareholders.”
– Canadian tech journalist and critic Paris Marx, making the case for the splinternet—a Web governed by open protocols, forced interoperability, and publicly funded alternatives to monopolized walled gardens. “Three decades into the commercialized internet, it’s time to take back control.”
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