Internet for the People

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Ben Tarnoff explores the hidden architecture of our digital world to explain why the internet feels increasingly broken. He argues that the frustrations of modern life online, from privacy violations to toxic algorithms, are not technical accidents but the logical results of a system designed for profit. By tracing the history of how a public research network was sold off to private corporations,…

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