As someone working in this space, I think standards and standard governance are important, but just as important are the economics. Right now, tech is largely dominated by platforms designed to extract resources in various ways, and to redistribute those resources to investors. To create a public interest internet, we will have to find a dwindling sense of collective and individual responsibility to our collective interests, and that includes recognising the very real and pressing economic implications of technofeudalism. That then means putting resources into digital public infrastructure, through pressure on our collectively held assets, such as pension funds and government procurement.
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