Reclaiming sovereignty in the digital age
Cyberlibertarianism must die if there’s to be any hope of a better future for the internet
Paris Marx
Paris Marx is a Canadian tech critic and host of the award-winning Tech Won’t Save Us podcast. He writes the Disconnect newsletter and is the author of Road to Nowhere: What Silicon Valley Gets Wrong about the Future of Transportation.
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Roundup: The price of an iPhone
Read to the end for a very special PS5
Smartphone innovation is dead, and that’s fine
Stop blaming a lack of competition for a product that’s simply done meaningfully evolving
Roundup: Will generative AI have many long-term benefits?
Read to the end for a fun Clippy meme!
Pavel Durov and Elon Musk are not free speech champions
The actions against Telegram and Twitter/X are about sovereignty, not speech
A critical tech reading list for late 2024
Ten book recommendations to get you through the final months of the year
Roundup: What the OpenAI funding round reveals about tech
Read to the end for a fun Cybertruck documentary
Zuckerberg wants to control the next platform—no matter what it is
The Meta CEO’s embrace of open source is nothing more than an opportunistic move
Roundup: Who helped Elon Musk buy Twitter?
Read to the end for one of the worst ideas I’ve ever heard