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“At present, the United States occupies the worst of both media worlds, lacking either a competitive market or meaningful government investment or oversight.”
― Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“Reform might begin with the phone, cable, and Internet providers who hook up our homes and mobile devices and have carved the United States into noncompetitive fiefdoms, enabling them to extract enormous rewards from what are essentially natural monopolies.”
― Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“While there might be many exciting, small experiments online, there are no large spaces dedicated to the public good. And while the Internet could have offered an alternative to the sphere of commodity exchange, private and often monopolistic markets now dominate; contrary to expectations, digital concentration set in more rapidly than with previous mediums. The revolutionary nature of technology was simply no match for the underlying economic imperatives,”
― Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

“given not just a chance to speak but to be heard. A more democratic culture is one where previously excluded populations are given the material means to fully engage. To create a culture that is more diverse and inclusive, we have to pioneer ways of addressing discrimination and bias head-on, despite the difficulties of applying traditional methods of mitigating prejudice to digital networks.”
― Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age