TY - GEN
T1 - The barriers to overthrowing internet feudalism
AU - Liu, Tai
AU - Tariq, Zain
AU - Chen, Jay
AU - Raghavan, Barath
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Copyright 2018 Elsevier B.V., All rights reserved.
PY - 2017/11/30
Y1 - 2017/11/30
N2 - Today's Internet scarcely resembles the mythological image of it as a fundamentally democratic system. Instead, users are at the whims of a small number of providers who control nearly everything about users' experiences on the Internet. In response, researchers and engineers have proposed, over the past decade, many systems to re-democratize the Internet, pushing control over data and systems back to the users. Yet nearly all such projects have failed. In this paper we explore why: what are the goals of such systems and what has caused them to run aground?.
AB - Today's Internet scarcely resembles the mythological image of it as a fundamentally democratic system. Instead, users are at the whims of a small number of providers who control nearly everything about users' experiences on the Internet. In response, researchers and engineers have proposed, over the past decade, many systems to re-democratize the Internet, pushing control over data and systems back to the users. Yet nearly all such projects have failed. In this paper we explore why: what are the goals of such systems and what has caused them to run aground?.
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U2 - 10.1145/3152434.3152454
DO - 10.1145/3152434.3152454
M3 - Conference contribution
AN - SCOPUS:85041177578
T3 - HotNets 2017 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
SP - 72
EP - 79
BT - HotNets 2017 - Proceedings of the 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks
PB - Association for Computing Machinery, Inc
T2 - 16th ACM Workshop on Hot Topics in Networks, HotNets 2017
Y2 - 30 November 2017 through 1 December 2017
ER -