The Internet Is Broken. Here’s Who Can Fix It.

The fight for local broadband is finally heating up

Illustration by Daniel Hertzberg

Not so long ago, as the internet emerged from the dial-up era and corporations were just beginning to monetize it, many writers argued that broadband would usher us into a new digital “utopia.” In 1996, John Perry Barlow, the founder of the nonprofit Electronic Frontier Foundation, wrote a…