“In the utopia that Scholz, Schneider, and dozens of contributors illustrate, the technologies we’ve come to take for granted—from Uber to Amazon and Airbnb—would be refashioned as cooperatively-owned and collectively governed entities. Mark Zuckerberg, they suggest, might put his Facebook shares in a user-controlled trust, so that those billions of people could have a say in what happens with the data that the platform collects. That’s just one of the bold proposals put forth by dozens of contributors, who envision a more just online future. At times, Ours to Hack and to Own may read like a pipe dream—but it’s also a much needed reminder that a better internet is possible.”

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