Book description
In Internet for the People, leading tech writer Ben Tarnoff offers an answer. The internet is broken, he 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…
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Ben Tarnoff is one of my favorite contemporary tech critics. He’s always so sharp, cogent, and thoughtful. He has such a gift for articulating ideas that I’m starting to think but don’t quite have the words for—not only does he have the right words for it, but he knows which frameworks and thinkers to draw on to help us understand the situation better.
This book makes the case that the problems with the modern internet are a result of its privatization, and that getting out requires us to deprivatize. Well-argued, meticulously researched, and inspiring.
From Wendy's list on critical perspective on the tech industry.
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