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Can the internet be saved without harming democracy? | Technology | The Guardian


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Guardian A new report wants to foster a digital age underpinned by human rights and calls for greater transparency from global giants. But will we ever trust the internet? Julia Powles: "The report [from Chatham House etc. ] pushes what it calls a “social compact” – an invented term, not the philosophical concept of old. It reflects the frightening prospect that the new age bonds of society are not between citizens and states, but between citizens (likely, in the imagining of its proponents, to be self-employed cheap workers of the “sharing economy” and other fabricated markets) and a nebulous “community” of “stakeholders”. "

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