please give it up for frank mccourt, jennifer strong. [applause] >> thank you. >> all right. thank you, everybody. thank you so much for joining us. and congratulations on the book. >> thank you very much. >> in it you say the internet is broken. doesn't have to be that way. let's start with that first bit. how do you think the internet is broken? >> it's broken because we have this awesome piece ofed technoly that was created that was decentralized and empowering for individuals and helps and trent held so much promise. about 20 years ago everything changed, you know, instead of it being decentralized human centric internet, it became a very much a centralized and autocratic and surveillance basedth internet. because of the alps, the big apps that should open strategy scrape our data and use it in waysce that some were desensitid but many were not. .. that's being done and we wouldn't allow any utility or infrastructure to as much harm as this is doing without, you know, saying enough is enough in and let's just fix this. do you mind to spell out the harms from where you sit

also frank mccourt, who we're having this chat with to celebrate our fight. don't forget our biggest fight outcome from court is civic entrepreneur and executive chairman of mccourt global along with for our partners for today the founder and executive chairman of project liberty, which is a far reaching effort to build an internet where individuals have control over their data, a voice, and how operate and more access to the economic benefits of innovation. he's also the author of as you see it, our biggest fight reclaiming liberty, humanity and dignity in the digital age. so please give a round of applause to both of them during coming up. but you're really going to start it before frank and jennifer. i want to set the stage. yeah, one vote because. you know, i wish we had born to run or something like that we could cue, but we'll get that for time. so a lot of great comments that you'll see if you go to our biggest fight a dot com one of them that really struck me was from bruce springsteen because he love bruce springsteen. he calls it a timely call to ar

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