Building the People’s Internet

By: Fraser Watt

Crypto advocates promise to democratise the internet by decentralising power, but the real path to digital democracy is publicly-owned infrastructure.

Illustration by Ricardo Santos

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Few predictions have aged as badly as those made about social media and the internet a decade ago. Newspaper columnists fawned over ‘Twitter revolutions’ in the Middle East, open source breaking down traditional property relations, and ‘Massive Open Online Courses’ replacing outmoded education systems across the world. That particular era is over. There are no […]

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Few predictions have aged as badly as those made about social media and the internet a decade ago. Newspaper columnists fawned over ‘Twitter revolutions’ in the Middle East, open source breaking down traditional property relations, and ‘Massive Open Online Courses’ replacing outmoded education systems across the world. That particular era is over. There are no […]

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Few predictions have aged as badly as those made about social media and the internet a decade ago. Newspaper columnists fawned over ‘Twitter revolutions’ in the Middle East, open source breaking down traditional property relations, and ‘Massive Open Online Courses’ replacing outmoded education systems across the world. That particular era is over. There are no […]

Few predictions have aged as badly as those made about social media and the internet a decade ago. Newspaper columnists fawned over ‘Twitter revolutions’ in the Middle East, open source breaking down traditional property relations, and ‘Massive Open Online Courses’ replacing outmoded education systems across the world. That particular era is over. There are no […]

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