The Internet Must Be More Than Facebook

If Big Tech becomes synonymous with the internet, we could lose free choice, democracy, and even the ability to imagine a different world

Maria Farrell
OneZero
Published in
8 min readOct 8, 2019

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BBig Tech wants to be the totality of what we see and do online. From Apple’s carefully curated user experience to the sprawling empires of Google/Alphabet and Facebook…

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Maria Farrell
OneZero

Irish writer based in London. Tech policy, possible futures, politics. @mariafarrell http://www.crookedtimber.org