"Ben Tarnoff issues a rallying cry for a new, democratic internet. This means deprivatizing the network to create an internet where people, and not profit, rule"--

Preface: Among the Eels -- A People's History of the Internet -- The Plunder Continues -- The People's Pipes -- From Below -- Up the Stack -- Online Malls -- Elastic Empires -- Inclusive Predators -- Toward the Forest -- Conclusion: Future Nostalgia.