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Apr 28, 2019 09:42PM

“There is no such thing as a public Internet: everything flows through private pipes. However, using the Internet for the consumption of culture or to search for information is nearly as essential to participating in modern life as having electricity or plumbing in your home”
― Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“A more open, egalitarian, participatory, and sustainable culture is profoundly worth championing, but technology alone cannot bring it into being. Left to race along its current course, the new order will come increasingly to resemble the old, and may end up worse in many ways. But the future has not been decided.”
― Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“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

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“More robust public support for the fourth estate would produce even greater freedom and diversity. In direct contradiction of stereotypes about the chilling effects of “state-controlled media,” countries enjoying such support are home to an unimpeded and vibrant press.”
― Astra Taylor, The People’s Platform: Taking Back Power and Culture in the Digital Age

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“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

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