The Public Interest Internet
summary
Argues that software is governance and code becomes a bureaucracy that creates choke points and accountability failures, illustrated by an April 1999 case where 440 ground squirrels shipped without paperwork were mostly killed because rules delegated decisions to staff who had no appeals. Cites control point analysis (David Clark 2012) and points to control points like DNS and browsers that determine access for 5 billion users. Calls for human-in-the-loop processes, peer-to-peer equality, and deliberation rather than blind voting.
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chapters (7)
- 0:00Introduction
- 3:39Accountability in systems
- 7:13Technology as governance
- 11:06Rule-based decision limits
- 15:43Democracy for complex problems
- 22:48Public interest internet
- 24:54Conclusion & Q&A
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