
TL;DR
The paper argues that the concentration of internet control in a few private organizations poses risks, and proposes a localist approach with municipal-scale internets to improve governance and stability.
Contribution
It introduces a novel localist governance model advocating for small, interoperable municipal internets to address centralization issues.
Findings
Highlights risks of current control points for global internet stability
Proposes a scalable, interoperable local governance framework
Suggests potential for increased resilience and diversity
Abstract
The internet's key points of global control lie in the hands of a few people, primarily private organizations based in the United States. These control points, as they exist today, raise structural risks to the global internet's long-term stability. I argue: the problem isn't that these control points exist, it's that there is no popular governance over them. I advocate for a localist approach to internet governance: small internets deployed on municipal scales, interoperating selectively, carefully, with this internet and one another.
Peer Reviews
No public reviews on file for this paper yet. If you reviewed it on a platform where reviews are public (OpenReview, ICLR, NeurIPS, ICML), you can paste yours below so the community can read it here.
Videos
No videos yet. Explain this paper in a talk, walkthrough, or lecture? Add one.
