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renewed interest in the utility concept including among technologists and
entrepreneurs. Given the massive environmental, privacy, and labour issues
associated with the Next Internet and the abject failure of existing policy
processes to deal with them, it is imperative to consider how to create
democratic and publicly controlled communication networks and the
political system that would use them in the public interest.