#213 - James Ball - Who Owns The Internet & How It Owns Us
Modern Wisdom
Chris Williamson
4.7 • 4.6K Ratings
🗓️ 24 August 2020
⏱️ 78 minutes
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James Ball is a writer, journalist & Pulitzer Prize winner.
The internet is more than the website you browse... it's real wires under the Atlantic, humans who have a big red button that can turn everything off, superbuildings with server centres, and a philosophy of freedom of information that we're moving further away from.
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| 0:00.0 | Oh, hello friends. Welcome back. |
| 0:03.3 | My guest today is James Ball. He's a British journalist and a writer who won the Pulitzer Prize for Public Service, |
| 0:09.9 | also been at the Guardian, WikiLeaks, Buzzfeed and The Washington Post. |
| 0:14.2 | He also was the person who brought out Julian Assange on stage in a stadium with like 15,000 people there. |
| 0:21.2 | So he's been around the block and his new book is talking about the internet, the history of the internet, |
| 0:26.4 | who controls it and how it controls us. Really interesting, deep dive, some investigative journalism, |
| 0:32.5 | talking about the heritage of the internet, what it was supposed to do, what it actually is, |
| 0:37.0 | like there's these crazy lines that run underneath the Atlantic and there's not very many of them, |
| 0:42.5 | and apparently sharks sometimes just cut them and then people's internet goes down, |
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