Under private ownership, such a language could never have been created. Not only would the expense have been too great, the very idea of a free and universal medium cut against the grain of the commercial impulse to lock users into a proprietary ecosystem. It was the absence of the profit motive and the presence of public management that made the i

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The root is simple: the internet is broken because the internet is a business. While the issues are various and complex, they are inextricable from the fact that the internet is owned by private firms and is run for profit. An internet owned by smaller, more entrepreneurial, more regulated firms will still be an internet run for profit. And an inte

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