I look at the history of the internet, from ARPANET & NSFNET, through privatization, to Tim-Berners Lee, Yahoo, Netscape, Google, eBay, and Facebook, examining Microsoft’s antitrust court case and their battle against Open Source and Free Software, Bill Gate’s Open Letter to Hobbyists and the leaked Halloween Documents. Then we take a look at the emergence of Surveillance Capitalism, and how platforms like AirBnb & Uber coopt the idea of the community and lobby politicians. Finally, we take a look at some alternatives.
Thank you to @WereInHell @zoe_bee @Tom_Nicholas @epochphilosophy @RadicalReviewer @unlearningeconomics9021 @PoliticalPhilosophyChannel for their help with this video.
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Chapters:
00:00 – Introduction to the History of the Internet
04:06 – Building the Net
20:37 – The Browser Wars (Microsoft vs the United States)
44:35 – The Californian Ideology (eBay, Yahoo, Google and the Libertarian Mind)
01:07:26 – The Raiding of Privacy (Surveillance Capitalism)
01:18:05 – Facebook
01:26:07 – The Theft of the Community (Airbnb & Uber)
01:40:31 – No Place (Utopian Dreams)
01:49:38 – Open Source vs Microsoft
01:59:24 – Conclusion: Politics, Policy, and Alternatives
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Babbage Engine video - Seth Ladd, CC BY 3.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Pierre Omydar photo - Joi 15:42, 2 August 2007 (UTC), CC BY 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
Yahoo Sign, Beraldo Leal from Natal / RN, Brazil, CC BY 2.0, , via Wikimedia Commons
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