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Without Their Permission
Without Their Permission: How the 21st Century Will Be Made, Not Managed | Alexis Ohanian
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A WALL STREET JOURNAL BESTSELLER As Alexis Ohanian learned when he helped to co-found the immensely popular reddit.com, the internet is the most powerful and democratic tool for disseminating information in human history. And when that (…more)
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TimSpalding
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Finally reading Ohanian's "Without Their Permission." It's fun to read, but the animating idea—the fundamental equality and opportunity of the internet ("all links are created equal")—was already shopworn in 2013. It's a fossil now.

It would be great if someone like Ohanian, or a thought-leader like Shirky or Weinberger, dug deep and analyzed how and why so much went wrong, to put alongside the many descriptions of things going right.