Can We Scale Down Big Tech?
Scandal at Facebook and the Amazon headquarters search charade have prompted renewed calls to break up big tech companies. But we need to go beyond trustbusting to rein in Silicon Valley.
Scandal at Facebook and the Amazon headquarters search charade have prompted renewed calls to break up big tech companies. But we need to go beyond trustbusting to rein in Silicon Valley.
The net neutrality repeal shows that it’s not enough to regulate the telecom giants. We need to bring the internet under public control.
Understanding the “alt-right” means spending less time looking to its leaders for ideological coherence and more on understanding how its base exercises power.
Why corporate schemes like Facebook’s Free Basics fail to deliver on their promises of opening the “knowledge economy” to all—and what a genuinely affordable, open internet would look like instead.