The internet is the answer to all the questions of our time | Technology | The Guardian
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Par Cory Doctorow
That’s what Internet Utopians do: they create a normative discussion about the dangers of an “evil” internet and the power of a good one, in Silicon Valley and its many global offshots. This is necessary, but insufficient, to fixing the net’s woes.
Internet Utopians know this. That’s why they campaign for legal reform; that’s why they liberate data; that’s why they form mass movements to stop the drive to kill net neutrality or impose mass surveillance.
The questions of the day are “How do we save the planet from the climate crisis?” and “What do we do about misogyny, racial profiling and police violence, and homophobic laws?” and “How do we check mass surveillance and the widening power of the state?” and “How do we bring down autocratic, human-rights-abusing regimes without leaving behind chaos and tragedy?”
Those are the questions.
But the internet is the answer. If you propose to fix any of these things without using the internet, you’re not being serious. And if you want to free the internet to use in all those fights, there’s a quarter century’s worth of Internet Utopians who’ve got your back.