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A simple web we own

Today the Web and Internet is owned and controlled by large for profit corporations and a few governments1. Corporate ownership combined with government policies has left us as tenant and product. It has given us a surveillance economy and enshittification.

  • What if I do not wish to be tenant and product?
  • What can I do to change the equation?

Those two questions lead me to a bigger question.

  • What happens when ownership and control of hardware and software shifts from the domain of corporations to a world where a significant percentage are owned by individual people and cooperatives?

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