The rest of the world doesn't want to see US hegemony here, in large part just for symbolic reasons,

All sorts of factors contribute to what Facebook or Twitter present in a feed, or what Google or Bing show us in search results. Our expectation is that those intermediaries will provide open conduits to others' content and that the variables in their processes just help yield the information we find most relevant.

Digital books and other texts are increasingly coming under the control of distributors and other gatekeepers rather than readers and libraries.

(With the DMCA) you have the sword of Damocles,

The Internet is a collective hallucination: one of the best humanity has ever generated.

I'm interested in harnessing the good will and distributed power of people, including novices.