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Do We Need a New Internet?

Britt and Ellie explore what the internet of the future could (or should) look like.

All around the world, governments are increasingly looking at control of the internet; whether it鈥檚 to regulate content, hide or ban content or increase ownership of your data.

Is this the opposite of what the internet was originally designed to be - a free, open and uncensored space?

In this seventh episode, Britt Wray and Ellie Cosgrave meet the people who want to bring that dream back using their alternative internet networks. Together, they imagine what the internet could or should look like in the future.

Cory Doctorow joins Britt and Ellie to navigate this huge subject as we meet former Wikileaks journalist James Ball, blockchain experts Stephen Tual and Juan Benet, Jilian York from the Electronic Frontier Foundation, security researcher Leonie Tanczer, Chaos Computer Club spokesman Linus Neumann, TOR developer Isis Agora Lovecruft and Mr C, co-founder of Hack Lab.

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