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The Internet Doesn’t Have to Be Awful
With the wholesale transfer of so much entertainment, social interaction, education, commerce, and politics from the real world to the virtual world—a process recently accelerated by the coronavirus pandemic—many Americans have come to live in a nightmarish inversion of the Tocquevillian dream, a new sort of wilderness.
Zephyr Teachout: The Government Needs to Find Big Tech a New Business Model (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 02/22/2021 - 11:13Trump’s Internet Is Celebrating (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Thu, 01/07/2021 - 18:06Op-Ed | The 1996 Law That Ruined the Internet: Why I changed my mind about Section 230 (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Tue, 01/05/2021 - 19:13Op-Ed | The Year That Changed the Internet: Platforms Became Arbiters of the Truth (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by Robbie McBeath on Wed, 12/30/2020 - 10:16Facebook Is a Doomsday Machine: The architecture of the modern web poses grave threats to humanity. It’s not too late to save us (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Wed, 12/16/2020 - 09:45Op-ed: Right-Wing Social Media Finalizes Its Divorce From Reality (Atlantic, The)
Submitted by benton on Mon, 11/23/2020 - 15:43Obama: The internet is “the single biggest threat to our democracy”
A Q&A with former President Barack Obama.
The Internet Won’t Be the Same After Trump
President Donald Trump has changed the internet in obvious ways. During his first term, Americans have watched his administration relish the opportunity to destroy net neutrality—the core principle of a free and open internet.