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internetarchive (internetarchive@mastodon.archive.org)'s status on Saturday, 14-Jan-2023 05:58:20 JST internetarchive
- Ben Tarnoff
If you weren't able to join us yesterday for our discussion with author @bentarnoff about his latest book, "Internet for the People," the recording is now available: https://archive.org/details/internet-for-the-people
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  Internet For The People
  
  Join Internet Archive’s senior policy counsel LILA BAILEY in conversation with author BEN TARNOFF about his book, INTERNET FOR THE PEOPLE: THE FIGHT FOR OUR DIGITAL FUTURE.Why is the internet so broken, and what could ever possibly fix it? The internet is broken, Tarnoff argues, because it is owned by private firms and run for profit. Google annihilates your privacy and Facebook amplifies right-wing propaganda because it is profitable to do so. But the internet wasn’t always like this—it had to be remade for the purposes of profit maximization, through a years-long process of privatization that turned a small research network into a powerhouse of global capitalism. Tarnoff tells the story of the privatization that made the modern internet, and which set in motion the crises that consume it today.

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