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Decentralizing the internet alone won’t lift it above politics or save it from corporate co-optation
Reconnected Decentralizing the internet alone won’t lift it above politics or save it from corporate co-optation Paris Marx July 26, 2021 share Image: Opsroom of the Project Cybersyn , designed by INTEC Design Group 1972-1973, Chile. Photo Copyright: Gui Bonsiepe. Courtesy Gui Bonsiepe . http://reallifemag.com/wp-content/uploads/2021/07/Reconnected.mp3 Full-text audio version of this essay. The conventional wisdom about networks suggests that their politics can be reduced to how centralized they are: A centralized network is designed for control, while a decentralized or distributed netw
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