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I miss the old, good internet, but I don’t want to bring it back. I want a new, good internet. One where users can’t be locked in because we make it legal to: reverse-engineer products and services, so you can leave a social media platform but still send and receive messages from the people you leave behind; jailbreak your devices so you can remove antifeatures like surveillance, ink-locking or repair-blocking; move your media and files out of the silo whence they originated and into any player you want. I want a new, good internet where we constrain the conduct of tech companies, banning unfair labor practices, deceptive marketing, corporate hostage-taking and other forms of rent-extraction. I want a new, good internet where it’s both illegal to impose bossware on your employees, and where those employees can legally hack the bossware their bosses shove down their throats. I want a new, good internet where creative workers and their audiences can reliably connect with one another, where news reporting isn’t held hostage to extractive processes. I want a new, good internet where we seize the means of computation so that the digital infrastructure that connects our romantic, personal, political, civic, economic, educational and family and social lives is operated by and for the people who use it.