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The Battle for the Internet

Stefan Mey

How Wikipedia, Mastodon and Others Are Challenging the Tech Giants

More freedom and more democracy were the great promises of the internet. But power is now concentrated in the hands of just a few tech giants. The internet itself, however, offers a potential solution to this problem, a way of preserving its original promise of freedom: the non-commercial alternative online world, which includes the online encyclopaedia Wikipedia, the Twitter alternative Mastodon, the non-commercial browser Firefox and the messaging service Signal.

There are hundreds of such projects. They make up the civil society of the digital world, and are the online equivalents of Greenpeace, Global Justice Now and Amnesty International. In order to make the internet better, fairer and freer, you do not have to study computer science, found a start-up or be a hacker. Stefan Mey introduces the protagonists, goals, strategies and business models of the alternative online world in meticulously researched and entertainingly written portraits. He does not gloss over existing conflicts. Is this the start of a little revolution?

• ‘Shining a light on the darkness of the digital world.’ - Austria Presse Agentur on ‘Darknet’

• Firefox, Mastodon and Signal – are they making the internet better, fairer and freer?

• The dream of a free, democratic internet

• It is up to us how strong we make the alternative online world

• Investigative research

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Published 2023-10-12T09:33:39.687Z by C.H.Beck , ISBN: 9783406807220

ISBN: 9783406807220