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From Manchester to Barcelona

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A new synthesis for the post-techlash era.

From Manchester to Barcelona Ben Tarnoff Building a better story about the internet. For a long time, a certain set of assumptions dominated our digital imagination. These assumptions should be familiar enough. Information wants to be free. Anything that connects people is good. The government is bad. The internet is another world, where the old rules don’t apply. The internet is a place of individual freedom, which is above all the freedom to express oneself. Such ideas were never 100 percent hegemonic, of course. They were always contested, with varying degrees of success. Governments, for o

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