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Podcast: New Books in Public Policy
Episode: Socialise the Series of Tubes: Toward a Democratic Internet
Description: Recently a major outage took nearly a third of Canada offline. No phone, no internet… even access to 911 got shut down in some places. So why does one company get so much control over a vital service… the internet?This is the story in the USA as well as Canada, so at Darts and Letters we wanted to look for a different way. We also don’t necessarily believe the market is the solution… so what is? How do we make a more democratic, socially driven internet?Gordon Katic interviews Ben Tarnoff, author of Internet for the P...