PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet “Defying...

PewDiePie’s Battle for the Soul of the Internet “Defying its foundational architecture, the internet is no longer decentralized. A cartel of politically aligned capitalists controls access not just to cyberspace in the abstract, but, arguably, the very means of online business functionality.” https://quillette.com/2018/12/20/pewdiepies-battle-for-the-soul-of-the-internet/

PewDiePie's Battle for the Soul of the Internet - Quillette

This is a story about the question of who holds power over what we can say, hear, watch and read on the internet—an increasingly urgent issue that many ordinary people have cause to think about every day. And yet the protagonist in this story, the man whose fate symbolizes the future of social media...

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