These days, dissatisfaction with the internet is widespread, driven by an array of concerns from rampant hate speech to ubiquitous tracking and data harvesting. So far, most of the solutions that have been put forward involve either new regulations or schemes to break up internet monopolies, but writer Ben Tarnoff says that none of those fixes get at what is in his view the actual root of the problem: that is, that the internet that we have today is made for businesses and not people. 

On this edition of KCBS In Depth, we discuss his new book, "Internet for the People: The Fight for our Digital Future," which lays out his case for taking the internet out of the hands of private enterprise and creating instead an internet that's run by public institutions. 

Guest: Ben Tarnoff, co-founder, Logic Magazine | author, "Internet for the People: The Fight for our Digital Future" 

Host: Keith Menconi 

These days, dissatisfaction with the internet is widespread, driven by an array of concerns from rampant hate speech to ubiquitous tracking and data harvesting. So far, most of the solutions that have been put forward involve either new regulations or schemes to break up internet monopolies, but writer Ben Tarnoff says that none of those fixes get at what is in his view the actual root of the problem: that is, that the internet that we have today is made for businesses and not people. 
On this edition of KCBS In Depth, we discuss his new book, "Internet for the People: The Fight for our Digital Future," which lays out his case for taking the internet out of the hands of private enterprise and creating instead an internet that's run by public institutions. 
Guest: Ben Tarnoff, co-founder, Logic Magazine | author, "Internet for the People: The Fight for our Digital Future" 
Host: Keith Menconi

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