Ben Tarnoff is a writer and technologist based in Massachusetts. He is the coauthor, with Quinn Slobodian, of the forthcoming book Muskism: A Guide for the Perplexed.
With the rise of AI slop and overall “enshittification,” it is increasingly the case that the internet is failing to address the public’s needs. What we need is sewer socialism for the digital realm — and it can start at the municipal level.
Tech workers occupy a contradictory location in the American class structure. On the one hand, many are well paid and identify both as professionals and with management. On the other, the proletarianized aspects of their work can offer opportunities to seize for organizing as workers.
What should we do about Google, Facebook, and Amazon? Here’s a democratic-socialist blueprint to decommodify and democratize the internet.
The UK Labour Party is campaigning on a platform of providing broadband free to everyone in Britain through a new public company. It can be the start of a radically democratic approach to the internet.
Figuring out how to fight for state power and popular power at the same time is tough. The work of Nicos Poulantzas shows how socialists in the twenty-first century can do it.
Workers at Google just scored an impressive victory against US militarism.
The best way to reform Silicon Valley is to strike at the root of its power — and that means taking on private ownership.
Unions have been trying to organize software engineers for decades, with little success. Here’s a look at the organizing campaign that might turn things around.
When it comes to green technology, only the state can do what Silicon Valley cannot.
Tech employees who increasingly see themselves as workers will be an important sector of resistance to Trump’s agenda.
President Trump just handed Internet providers the ability to do whatever they want with your data. Here’s how to fight back.
The Internet was built by public institutions — so why is it controlled by private corporations?