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How to Save the Internet

The Threat to Global Connection in the Age of AI and Political Conflict

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The global, open internet is fragmenting. How To Save the Internet outlines the global cooperation needed to reform Big Tech and preserve the internet as we know it.


As democracies aim to control Big Tech, Silicon Valley adopts an America-first agenda, and authoritarian regimes like China and Russia isolate their populations from the internet, the most powerful tool for bringing us together risks being dismantled.

Nick Clegg, Meta’s former President of Global Affairs, reveals where Big Tech has faltered, how Silicon Valley’s insularity has led to mistakes, and the necessary radical reforms for global platforms to ensure their future.

While new regulations are crucial, imposing national borders on the internet would undermine its capacity for sharing knowledge, collaboration, education, trade, research, and ultimately, for the empowerment and improvement of billions of lives.

Radical, reasonable, deeply felt and disarmingly honest, this is the book we need to save the internet.

'A vital read for anyone building or regulating the next era of technology' REID HOFFMAN, LinkedIn Co-Founder

'A gripping and timely book. Nick Clegg writes with clarity, authority and urgency' PETER FRANKOPAN

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Critic reviews

Entertaining . . . lucid, detailed . . . there is much to agree with
Warns of the dangers posed to a free and open global internet by an age of autocrats and a titanic power struggle over AI
Studded throughout [with] good analyses of the political situation around technology
A gripping and timely book. Nick Clegg writes with clarity, authority and urgency (Peter Frankopan)
A wake-up call we cannot afford to ignore (Tony Blair)
A vital read (Reid Hoffman, co-founder of LinkedIn)
All stars
Most relevant
this is what it came down too, be glad you've got meta and not China, good listen, good ideas but slightly predictable based on employment history

china or Zuckerberg, or options

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